The Piano Pod Meets Chantal Balestri: Advice for Young Artists

13 Nov 2020 · 2 min

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This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube video titled "The Piano Pod Meets Chantal Balestri: Advice for Young Artists" (published 2020-11-13) featuring Chantal Balestri giving career advice for young musicians. In the excerpt she emphasizes dedication to practice, being open to new experiences, overcoming shyness to network, exploring repertoire and collaborations with other musicians, dancers and artists, and finding an individualized path. The clip reads as a single-speaker advice/monologue rather than a back-and-forth conversation.

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My advice is, of course, to be dedicated musician if this is, of course, your goal. If you want to be a musician, of course, you need to focus on practicing and practicing. It's the first thing. But to be open to try new experience and not be afraid. If you don't feel comfortable, it's fine. It's fine. Every time we try something new, you are never ready, for real. So just go with it and try also to— I know that it's hard if you are shy, but if you see something interesting, don't be afraid to go to the person who thinks it's organizing this event or to speak with someone you think might be interesting for you to know. The worst thing might happen is someone saying no or not really replying to you, but it's almost never the case. I learned a lot from my experience that every time you ask something and that you think it's important and it's meaningful, most of the time people reply positively to that. And, um, So just present yourself for who you are and really try to see what to explore and see what you like the most. And yeah, trying something new. And both on the performing side, which means with repertoire, explore with repertoire, explore with playing with other people, explore with playing different ensemble, and also with I don't know, with dancers, with artists in general, and also explore outside of just the performing. And then, of course, everyone is different and will find what's the best.