CONCERT!!!!!!!

My teacher always organizes an annual concert for her students. Also including her sister's students. Her sister teaches violin, and my teacher teaches cello. Oh, and both of them also teach piano. So the yearly concert will usually have cello, violin, and piano performances. :)

This year, their annual concert was at the beginning of the year. It was last Saturday, 25th of Feb. :)

The whole reason why my mum told me to be part of the concert and perform is not to show off but for me to gain more experience playing in front of an audience. I always suck at that. I always get sooooo nervous, I will be shaking and make mistakes. And because I have an upcoming cello exam, my mum wants me to play infront of people more often so I will get used to it. Which I agree, but I really hate playing infront of people. I'm not the performer type of person.

Anywayz, I performed Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor for the concert, I was 2nd to perform. A little boy performed a violin piece just before me. :P The whole time before I went up to play my piece, my hands were sweating, and shaking, and my face was as soooo WHITE my mum said it's like as though I just saw a ghost. I was very very very pale.

And I totally sucked!!!!!!! My fingers were shaking, I could hardly play, I had to keep telling my mind to control my fingers to be steady...it was difficult, and not to mention I was really really really very pitchy. :( My mum recorded me peforming so I could hear myself after that, and oh man, it really sounded horrible. Even when I was performing, I cringed everytime I made a mistake and went out of tune. :(

When I play at home it's so much better, because??? No audience. *sighs*

I NEED TO GAIN MORE EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Ah well, at least I know I did better than 2 years ago.. :)

Charissa