Is it necessary to have played piano from an early age in order to become a concert pianist, or can you totally be new at it in college and still become one? Is it to late if I’m entering my junior year in highschool?
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Firstly, those who really succeed at anything do so because they want and need to do it – not because they want “be” a musician, artists or the rest as a role to play. Secondly, it certainly helps to start young, particularly with music. But Thirdly, if you need music to be whole, GO FOR IT! We may not become celebrated at what we do, but unless we do what is in us to do we can never be whole and at peace with ourselves.
It’s not how early you start, it’s how GOOD you are.
You could start at age 6-7, and not have what it takes to become a concert pianist.
Work hard at it and could be playing like you did learn it from an early age. Time and practice (I know.. cheesy)
I guess it does not really matter. You just need to follow your heart if you really want to be a concert pianist. Learning instruments, for me, does not have an age requirement unlike gymnastics and some other sports.
For as long as you know the right people to stick with and where to go then you can be a concert pianist. What’s important is that you’d do your best in learning it.
From what U have read in the previous posts, these people are supportive and well-meaning – bot not one of them is actually a professional in the music business. I am – since 1971. I have multiple degrees, and am a competition judge in NY. I say this so that you will know I have ONLY your best interests at heart.
By all means, if you love the piano, start studying. Devote as much time as you wish, to become as good a player as you can. But in all honestly, you are FAR too late to consider becoming a serious professional pianist. You would need to major in piano in college, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. And this had better be one of the ten our so TOP conservatories in the Us – or the world. That means you would have to pass an audition to get in – by winter of your senior year. If you are a junior now – you have NO chance. None.
A recent study, publicized in the NY Times, said that approximately 20% of all US teens actually think that they have a chance to be FAMOUS someday. This is truly delusional thinking. And it is not the road to contentment or happiness. There are maybe a dozen successful full-time employed concert pianists in the world. There are THOUSANDS of people who seriously study piano at the collegiate and graduate level. YOU do the math.