-First of all, could you give us a brief introduction and your biography so far?
TA: I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old, and I had no idea that I wanted to play the piano separately. When I lived in an apartment, a child on a different floor was playing ballet, so I also went to see classical ballet. I've been there.
So, I thought that ballet was good, and I thought that the Japanese musical instrument kin I saw on TV was cool, so I wanted to do it, but my parents wanted to play the piano from a young age, so sensei has always been. It seems that he was looking for it, but no one knew it in the neighborhood.
I kept looking for it, and when I was a senior in kindergarten, my homeroom teacher, sensei, told me that my acquaintance had a piano sensei.Why don't you play the piano?I was told that I didn't repel at all, so I said goodbye and went to the piano.
I was also the mother of my classmate, but I decided to start playing the piano because of that connection.
As my parents, I didn't intend to keep it going for a long time, but as a simple special skill, I thought that I could play an active part in a hobby that can be continued for a long time, a chorus contest if I can play the piano, or even when I go to elementary school. ..
It seems that he didn't intend to continue until he became an adult.
However, due to the connection of sensei I learned, there is a small group of piano sensei, and I call pianist sensei from Tokyo once every two months to do lessons regularly, so let's go in there. No?Was said.
It seems that sensei had just joined the group, and he wanted to get a lot of students out of his classroom, so he was just starting to play, but even if he took a little bit, it felt like.
As my parents didn't intend to make it so serious, it was a great opportunity to learn sensei, and since it was a 15-minute free trial lesson, I decided to take it to make memories.
Isn't that sensei going to the last concert of this year?When I was told that, I couldn't go against it, or I had to obey because I was told by a great sensei, so my parents couldn't refuse and I decided to continue playing the piano.So, that sensei died this year, but I've been able to connect with those students all over the country, and I feel like I've been involved in the piano for a long time.
-Have you ever attended an overseas class?
TA: Not even once.
-What made you decide to attend the European Summer Academy?
TA: It was said by sensei that it is best to go abroad and study, so the first thing I wanted to do was to go over there, but vaguely, it was Germany. Because of this, the summer academy was in Germany, so I think it was the decisive factor.
-I think it was a Szeps sensei class this time, but how many participants were there?
TA: There were 4 lessons, 4 people took those 5 lessons, and there were about 4 people who had different sensei, so there were about 9 people in total.
-How many people were there?
TA: I think that there are three Japanese people including me, two Korean and Chinese people, and two Japanese people and Asian people are brothers. However, about two people were accepted by the family.
-What was the overall schedule of the workshop?
TA: Regarding the lessons, I was able to take the lessons four times at regular intervals due to the convenience of sensei.
There was a class concert three or four days before the end, and everyone played there.
At the end, I had a class concert all the time, and classes of various other musical instruments were packed from the morning, so I could listen to the concert as much as I wanted.
At night, there was something like a professor's concert all the time except for one day and two days.
-How was the level of the participants?
TA: It was very expensive.
I didn't know the know-how at all, so I took it with the feeling that I should just watch the song I was practicing.
Others knew how to receive it, or were well prepared.
Most of the time, I brought a lot of songs, memorized all the songs, and brought them to the point where I could play one song at a concert.
So the level was much higher than I imagined.
-How was sensei?
TA: The person who speaks directly is also said by the interpreter, and I'm a little troubled with how to convey it.
But is it okay because I'm going to say what I said?I was told, but I should have said it clearly, so I asked them to tell me everything as it was.
It may be hard to say, but I also teach you that music, basic playing, sensei is Russian, so the Russian method is doing this. I did.
We had a wide range of lessons from basics such as how to use fingers to how to sing.
He also talked with a lot of humor, so I was nervous at first, but I think it was a great learning experience.
-How was it when you listened to the concert of sensei?
TA: I felt that I could enjoy different types of performances every day because I could clearly understand each color, not the various types of playing on the piano.
-How did you spend your time outside of the lessons?
TA: Yes.I went for a walk and Leipzig, so I went there about twice and walked around the Bach House, Mendelssohn's house, Thomas Church, and it was like sightseeing.
I felt that it was calm or more urban than Halley, but I really felt that it was so dangerous, not that urban feeling, but that it was calm and comfortable to live in.
-Did you speak English to communicate and shop with the townspeople?
TA: That's right.If anything.
-There are some places on the old east side where you can't speak English easily.
TA: That's right.So when I went to the restaurant, Halley was done by someone other than me. Is English okay?I don't know if I say that.
However, I thought that there was a warm place because he tried hard to communicate, but I thought that the language was difficult after all.
-Did you go with the person who was taking the meal with you?
TA: That's right.After that, I ate bread from a bakery.
There were more of them, but since the concert ended early, I went to a restaurant with the feeling that I should drink beer.
-Is there anything like this delicious bread or restaurant?On the contrary, it didn't fit my mouth.
TA: Surprisingly, what about your meal?There was no such thing, and I felt that everything was delicious.
The pizza I ate at the restaurant was very delicious and there were many kinds.
On the last day, we all asked for pizza when we went to launch it with only Japanese people, but they all looked delicious and the food we ate was very delicious.
I didn't have the image of pizza in Germany, but I thought that such a meal was delicious.
-How did you practice during the class?
TA: The practice room was divided into one room for five people.
From 10 am to 7 pm, I took turns practicing for 1 hours each day.
-Is the atmosphere not much different from the Japanese practice room?
TA: I wondered if there was a better piano, but the tuning wasn't very good, or if I said it was terrible, it was like that.
The room was hot, it didn't have an air conditioner like in Japan, and it said that the windows shouldn't be opened, so it was very hot.
There were times when it was hot enough to come as a monmon when I played it for two hours.
It's just right when it's cool, but it was hard when the temperature was high.
-How was the hotel?
TA: The hotel was very nice.It was nice that it was beautiful and the space was very large.
-Did it get hot or cold?
TA: That was fine.I thought it was a little hot, but it wasn't like I couldn't stay that much.
-There is no cooler, right?
TA: I didn't.
-Europe is getting hotter and hotter these days, and it's really hot, so I don't have a cooler, is that okay?I also talk about things like that, but it's still hot, isn't it?
TA: I wondered if it would be even hotter in the next few years.
-Then you may be able to put in a cooler.Did you have a fan?
TA: There was no electric fan.I thought I should bring my own electric fan, but when I thought about the outlet, I couldn't bring it.
I had a child who brought it, but I thought it would be convenient to have something that could be inserted into a mobile phone.
-Is it so hot?
TA: Sometimes it was even hotter when I went out.
Therefore, it may be comfortable to have a small electric fan.
-Unlike the heat in Japan, it feels like there is no humidity and the sun is strong.
TA: The sunlight was strong.
-How was the morning and evening?
TA: It was cool in the morning and evening.It's hot only during the day.
-Isn't it so uneasy to walk with your friends at night?
TA: That's right.But it wasn't in Japan, so I was afraid of that.
But in particular, there was no such thing as a rampage, so I think I was relieved at that.
-Is the response of the staff of the class okay?
TA: That was really good.
I'm nervous because it's in English, but he explained so hard, and even on the final day, most of the people were at the hotel, so two people came out by the time I left. , Bye bye, sent me like that.
I was very happy that I was relieved that it was being watched over to the end.
-Did you have a washing machine at the hotel?
TA: I didn't have a washing machine, so I washed my hands normally.
The other child found a coin laundry near the school and was accustomed to traveling, so he seems to be looking for such a thing.But I found it difficult to find, so I decided to wash my hands.
-How was the training venue moved from your accommodation?
TA: I got on a tram, got off from the nearest place, and walked a little.
-Did you understand immediately?
TA: I went to rely on the photos of the materials I received, so I found a landmark.
But it was difficult to get inside.
I couldn't get to the reception desk in the university, so I got lost because I went to a different side of the two buildings, and I found something by asking various people to teach me.
-Did you have any problems while studying abroad?
TA: There was nothing in particular.
I went and got something like a free ticket from the hotel, but at first I was having trouble using it, so I asked and told me.
Also, how to ride the tram is only written in the direction, and it is quite difficult, so it may be a problem at first.
-Did you have a moment when you were really happy while studying abroad this time?
TA: The air was completely different from the time I got off the plane, and that alone was a great stimulus.
I didn't really feel that kind of thing in Japan because I had to come to a different country and manage to reach it by myself.
I think it was the best thing for me that I could feel a different way of life by going to a different country and listening to words that I couldn't hear.
-Have you ever felt that sensei's teaching method is different or something about the musical part?
TA: My sensei has been in Germany for a long time, and that sensei has always told me not to hit the keyboard by playing.
I thought I was playing with that in mind, but maybe I was getting addicted to it, and Szeps sensei told me that.
In Japan, I sometimes feel that I'm technically making loud noises, raising my fingers, and seeing various people playing, but instead, I put my hand on the keyboard and put my hand on it. Or rather, I feel that it is a characteristic of overseas that people are told not to hit.
-Have you ever felt that the town is different from Japan?
TA: I felt that the holiday was just a holiday.
In Japan, the store is still open, so you shouldn't enter at that time, so I'm preparing to close it around 8 o'clock, or it's completely closed.
The night is longer than this one, or it doesn't get too dark, so I don't feel like it's night, but I felt that all the shops were closed and I had more time to rest than in Japan.
-Short-term study abroad and long-term study abroad may be the same, but if you have any advice for those who want to study abroad.
TA: It's a word.I was wondering if I could do something about it, but the biggest thing was that I wasn't used to hearing the words.
English sounds like German, or at first I don't understand at all.It was said that it was the cause of the most anxiety, so even if I couldn't speak or understand it, I could put in a few words, just listen and get used to my ears, and so on. I really felt that I should get used to it.
-Even if it's a little thing, even if it's not 100%, if you don't know what you know, the way you spend your time will change.
TA: The adults I went with listened to German every day on my mobile phone for 3 months, and I also spoke English for 10 minutes every day, so I always listen to it every day.
When I was listening, I thought that I would never come out like this, but when I went there, I could talk a lot, or even a simple conversation came out, and I used it to communicate and went. You said that it would come out when you look at it, so that alone seems to be quite different.
So I thought it would be good to do the words like that.
-Can you tell us what you would like to do in your future activities with TA?
TA: Actually, I'm graduating from university this year, so I was vaguely thinking that I would like to study abroad as a result of this time, but when I went there, it was said that I would go to a language school after studying abroad. I've heard that, but in my case, I really felt that I had to prepare various things more emotionally than that.
I think I should think about it for about a year, see various seminars, including those held in Japan, and think slowly.
-In the future, do you feel like living locally for a span of about a year or two?
TA: That's in my head.
-Thank you for your valuable feedback today.
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