A 12 Years Old Player Piano (The interest)

There are so many reasons why both adults and children benefit from the study of a musical instrument. Music brings us so much happiness to our life. It is important to be given the chance to make music because it can give us an emotional and creative outlet. Playing an instrument is an excellent source of pleasure and fulfillment. It can provide a deep sense of satisfaction.The piano provides both melody and harmony. Therefore, it can be played individually without any accompaniment. It has been proved that children and adults who take part in musical activities are happier and more sociable than those who don’t. Playing the piano provides a readymade opportunity to perform.

Cinta Angelica is a beautiful little girl from Ambarawa. She likes playing piano. She always plays it everyday. Since 9 years old, she has been playing piano. Cinta very likes piano. Every at 5 pm after she goes back from her school, she always goes to the piano class. Cinta first joined a competition, when she was 10 years old in an Indonesia Piano Competition 2014 (IPC). She has an experience when she did the first performance in a big stage. Cinta was very nervous and afraid. She did not believe that she would become the winner.

“I do not trust myself, when I saw people who were playing piano better than what I did.”

There were 5 juries from teachers and musicians in the competition. She was afraid if she made a mistake in front of many people when she was playing the piano.

“I felt nervous when I knew the juries are musicians, my foot shock. However, when my turn I tried to be relax so I could play piano”.

 She was very shock when she knew she got an “Award of Outstanding Performance”.

“I cannot believe that, I get this award. This is my first experience to join a competition and I get an award from this competition”.  

She was very happy and she was interested to join the other competition again. After one year, she joined again in Indonesia Piano Competition 2015. In this competition, she got the second winner. Although she was felt nervous because other pianist were more expressive than her, but she still wanted to try to be a good pianist. She wants to become the first winner in a competition. Until now she always joins many competitions from  her piano class. The challenge  when she play piano is, when her teacher gives an assignment with a quick tempo and she should make a new tone. Her motivation to playing piano is, to make others feel happy with her performance.

If you have a talent, you must develop it and do not feel satisfy quickly. God has given you potential to make your life more colorful. We should use it to make people around us happy and also use our potential to do positive things.