Get Ready with Me to Perform: a surprising audience

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

As a token of my appreciation for your continuous support, I spent 7 hours finishing this vlog for you today on Thanksgiving. Thank you for appreciating classical music with me 🙏 Happy thanksgiving! ❤

[@soulpriest1866]

Thank you... It is greatly enjoyed and appreciated

[@pjbpiano]

Thank you for the lovely content.

[@mottokittokatto]

Thank you! 🙏 Happy Thanksgiving!

[@I.amthatrealJuan]

Thank you for sharing this journey to us.

[@thomasnation503]

Wow, I second the above comments. I hope our appreciation reaches you - your videos mean so much to me! Happy thanksgiving!

[@sanjosemike3137]

Dear Ms. Poon: Over the years I have enjoyed watching your videos and listening to you play. You tend to be VERY critical of yourself. As a person who was able to play the 5 Beethoven Concertos as a teen, I believe you are OVERLY CRITICAL. I believe you play quite beautifully and transmit your love of the music well beyond your wonderful technical abilities. Please do NOT assume that even people who play are as CRITICAL of you as you are. We love what you do. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

[@siddharth-gandhi]

When you started playing the Bach Prelude, even I just felt at peace even with all stress going around me. Like honey on the soul indeed. Bravo!

[@thearm95]

Me too! This has inspired me to revisit the Prelude - with an new approach.

[@santoor_rishi]

Tiffany, Have been following your journey since the beginning and I remember you saying that one of the main aims of your channel was to make Classical Music and the people behind the instruments more human, transcending its polished exterior culture and diving into its interior joys, fascinations, imagination, transformations as well as its emotional and mental struggles that are made to be overcome. In short, that Classical Music is a living art, and the players that play it are also human. A very loaded message and theme. But you cover it so beautifully in every single one of your videos. Before discovering your channel (even as someone who has studied Piano Composition for 8 years) I used to love Classical Music as music, but, at every single conclusion of your videos, I feel that Classical Music is becoming more and more like a friend that is there for me, whom I can always rely upon for support. You are changing the landscape of Classical Music one heart at a time. Thank you for supporting the Classical community and deepening their experiences with music. May the beauty of this spread far and wide.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Thank you for such a wonderful comment. You understand my work so well 🙏

[@fuyu856]

19:40 I’m so glad that you’re getting lots of support from the audience~ And knowing that many young audiences also went to your concert really makes me happy.

[@NN-rn1oz]

I love these 'get nervous with Tiffany' videos.

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

😅

[@TheRickuren]

One of my favorite videos from you, Tiffany - a professional musician dealing with real life and many of the issues (expected and unexpected) that come up before a performance. As a fellow musician, I deeply empathize with many of the things you have to go through to give your best. Thank you! ❤

[@tombufford136]

Very impressive Tiffany ! Glad we can be close up to you while you test the piano, lights and accoustics. Some tough looking places in Zagreb you had to travel around. I remember historic old buildings in downtown Zagreb.

[@reallynotpc]

I love your performances of K.380! So serene! And you are so funny while making friends with that piano!

[@sagar1992]

Where can I watch the performance?

[@reallynotpc]

@@sagar1992 I can't remember where to find a full performance, but she often gives us snippets of it, always beautifully played.

[@AiChipo]

Isn’t she just amazing guys !!!

[@valandhol9four680]

I would be happy to be her personal chef :)

[@manueladevilliers5301]

Thank you so much for making time for your supporters. We always look out for the next video.

[@BlackHermit]

Croatia is so cozy in the autumn! Haven't been there in more than a decade. And I always giggle when I see the piano "talk" back to you, really love those parts :)

[@Bassynater2500]

The first time i heard the Scarlatti sonata on your videos I immediately fell in love with it and his music. thank you for being such a humble presence in the classical space on KZbin. It feels like a friend I’m watching practice and grow while I am too!

[@daviddampier1850]

I'm grateful for another video from Tiffany and it's Thanksgiving Day.

[@thomasbunner734]

The sounds you can coax from even grumpy pianos is so amazing! I just love listening to your music so much lying here next to (not under) my piano. ❤❤❤

[@RG_Eph]

“Grumpy pianos” lol why is that cute…I want a grumpy piano🥺

[@Hyfun7]

Thank you, for sharing so much of you.

[@peterwu8471]

Thanks for sharing your loveliness and talent with us - we love you. Also, I hope you feel less lonely because you share these videos. I can imagine traveling alone can be fun but lonely. God bless you.

[@firetree2007]

you are growing up into a fine pianist in front our eyes, best withes for the future performances.

[@Fotonicpulse]

Tiffany as the piano is my favourite musical instrument i so enjoyed all the aspects of what is involved when doing a concert, Michael.

[@Jon-xi4xj]

So lovely artist,we always love you!

[@sunnyng1645]

How nice we can spend Thanksgiving with you and your journey together. This is certainly a treat 💕🌷Hope you enjoy the rest of the day. Thanks 🙏🏼

[@mfwerner]

thank you for sharing with us!! you really inspire me. Thank you again 😊

[@xubinyang5]

谢谢！

[@hanyuc.6534]

Thanks for taking the time. Love it!

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Thank you!

[@mzimmer1751]

You have really good editing on your videos; it helps tell the story. Also, thanks for the T-day vlog! Happy Thanksgiving!

[@billbusen]

Playing through the Prelude in C is so healing to the soul!

[@dannyhicks5039]

I have always loved classical music and you are a true inspiration to all.

[@dannyhicks5039]

I have been to one concert in Huntsville Alabama. Debussy & Ravel. It was an amazing Experience.

[@ChicoBlack]

Tiffany pond Thank you for sharing Advanced video Concert and practice Piano finger ❤❤ God bless Producer Chico Black ❤

[@jonathanjonathan2096]

Fantastic music, fantastic video. The time and effort is deeply appreciated :)

[@michaelmars9036]

Hello Tiffany I adore your playing l think it is wonderful your humility speaks volumes to who you are as a person. Very inspiring!

[@matthodek]

Thank you for being open and honest about your experiences. That moment with Bach's Prelude No. 1 was very nice. I will have to remember that one for when I need to find my center.

[@clamayaceo]

Marvelous vlog. As I watched this, it triggered memories of the early days. I’ve enjoyed following your journey. You are truly an inspiration and an awesome role model. There’s always such a warm human quality to your vlogs and that makes it real and not contrived and connects with the audience so authentically. Watching you eat your meals, prepare your meals, sharing with us your moods and feelings, commenting how awkward you feel even though you’ve been doing this for a while - it’s the salt-of-the-earth feel that really connects. Thank you for your work and your life that you share with all of us. I am grateful to have the privilege of this experience to journey with you. Happy New Year to you and your family 🎹❣️

[@newnewchannel]

Very beautiful tone, appreciate your performance

[@wjefe525]

Hey Tiffany, I don't usually post commentary on KZbin, but I've been follow you from 2 years ago and it's actually my favorite video from you. Thx god even the top pianist have lot of doubt Thanks for all from 2 years ❤

[@hansheng654]

This piano is probably the extrem definition of "play to the key bottom" that teacher used to tell us young students... 😂😂😂

[@hippophile]

Bach prelude no1 is one of my go-to pieces when my something is not working or I am tired! So calming and simple yet lovely... and short! Lovely to hear you playing it too! :)) Somehow I always make one mistake... somewhere... but the rest is always fine.

[@thearm95]

Tiffany's playing of it here has turned out to be my favourite version!

[@dashikidepaul6449]

Great video. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 I swear I'm coming to see a concert in person, one of these days

[@krazdomino4882]

Tiffany you play with senses of your fingertips, you must be a tactile and audio learner. You are master in touch, I enjoy you very much, and of course your music, ❤

[@saikato9946]

Here's a few little pointers about this video, and your videos in general: First, pretty random but love your dressing style! Second, it's very inspiring to see that mood change from relaxed, tired, all that to the show time mood - it's a relatively subtle but very interesting thing to watch in real time.. when the time comes to perform is like the air changes and you get into a unique frame of mind which is inspiring, if that makes sense. And lastly, love the subtle way you promote your podcast, it's so well integrated that it may as well just be a part of the video.

[@071949]

Hi Tiffany, I enjoyed listening to you practice. It is interesting to hear how individual pianos have unique ¨personalities¨.

[@kaavyalakshmi1612]

I really like that you made a vlog i recently saw one of your pieces of Liszt and it sounded so great!! I loved your passion when you play it and you showed all your true thoughts thanks for sharing this! Love you! Always support you nd pls don't stop!

[@christinenorbe8618]

Scarlatti always brightens my mood!

[@jen43072]

I don't know how you were able to be so patient with how that action sounded. 🙏🏽❤️

[@lucianoiovino304]

Brava!

[@ronl7131]

Great that Youth involved with Classical Music….

[@Bduh2]

Happy Thanks Giving and giving us a wonderful video! My favorite of all is J. S. Bach so, thank you for playing my favorite tune. 🙂

[@Giannaena]

I love Bach prelude 1🙂🌺👍🎹🎵

[@ROBERT-ml7ml]

Have you tried soaking your hands in warm water for a few minutes before playing? It really helps! 🎉

[@vipassana72]

wonderful honesty from you piano players. wonderfully inspiring. it creates good internal feelings to feel a sense of intimacy with another in such a way as this. thank you. LM p.s. I am more of a soccer fan.

[@williamgreen1512]

Wow Croatia , what a delight this video is . One thing that really made me so happy , was seeing just how well you now regenerate your emotions after performing , a skill that really is truly worthy of sharing and teaching . It’s one of those subject that has fascinated me , right from the the time that Romanticism became philosophised and subsequently analysed in the arts . Just before the nineteenth century it became a taboo as there were so many bad interpretations and forms of the philosophy , based around the traditional founders of “ human emotion and expression in the arts “ . Although stemming from Romanticism , it was humour that entertained the subtle differences in what we consider “ Romantic “ . I wonder if it’s the Schumann in you Tiffany , that has helped with this !. I should imagine so . But perhaps also that you had to deal with the “ wired action “ and as such , you just felt a need to excel before it all became an overwhelming process of questions to oneself .

[@JP-ku5hw]

Great video video. By the way, there’s many composers out there, but you chose the ones that are pretty underrated. That’s nice. Keep it up!

[@arggal]

Ηappy thanksgiving Tiffany! A big thank you for everything you do for us. As for the D model, it was the reason I left the recital not as super excited as I expected. I was sitting in the third row and the bass was so loud!!! After that I decided to always choose back seats when I go to recitals.

[@Searching4DMT]

Looking very beautiful Tiffany 🙏❤️ happy turkey day sweetheart

[@ktd9]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@joncrabb5926]

Do you have any plans to perform in the UK I would love to see you perform you're such an inspiration!

[@ruksaduksa]

Im still deeply touched by the performance i was in the first row i was just a beginner in music school and you inspired me to be very detriment and i finished the whole primary school in a year and half and now am attending a music academy:) btw loved your outfit that day 😽

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Oh wow, how nice of you to revisit that memory with me after almost 2 years! Thank you for coming and best of luck with your music academy journey :)

[@wbiro]

It will be interesting how your pre-concert stories will change as you change and grow (ever-so-slowly, of course)...

[@turtleducksss343]

u r the coolest :) having an older girl pianist to look up to is amazing for me ;; ty for sharing!!!

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

Awww 🤗🙏

[@jazzfan7491]

My gosh the classical music world is stressful! I'm really not sure if this perfectionism serves the music... But it may be what the current classical music listeners want...

[@yagvtt]

Really nice, thanks, hope to hear some more Goldberg one day.

[@XMickyMouseX]

Every time I here you playing Scarlatti I think of the Scarlatti recordings of Christian Zacharias and lately found that there is a project of Sandro Ivo Bartoli where he started recording all the 555 Scarlatti Sonatas on the piano in the time of the Lockdown of the pandemic.

[@VivaceMusic]

Best Pianist KZbinr👍😊

[@amtq]

@Tiffany Poon were you at Carnegie Hall for Hélène Grimaud yesterday? I think I saw you in the intermission!

[@TiffanyPoonpianist]

yep

[@amtq]

@@TiffanyPoonpianist Oh cool! I became addicted to the Bagatelle No. 2 by Silvestrov after the concert...

[@5sup2]

So cool. both of you (tiffany and pianos) are not weird nor awkward! 😀 (but maybe this comment is)

[@Zhinarkos]

I love playing Bach as a warm up.

[@oldfarmshow]

❤️

[@hansklimstra5987]

I am not Jewish, but I do know what the word Mensch means, and you are an amazing one!

[@pinocesi8402]

Dear greeting 💯🎹

[@Michael-Ray]

Weird keys give me anxiety because the audience will think it's my fault if a mistake is heard.

[@martinbennett2228]

How do you settle on a tempo for the opening of the Kreisleriana?

[@Schleiermacher1000]

Where is the recording of the Goldberg Variations?

[@amievil3697]

If the action on that piano was lets sayyyyy, my guitar WE would take a little trip to the guitar tech

[@jaimenmts4040]

Hi! You play, sound-just great!!! You have your own style of playing different composers! That’s such an amazing thing for me. And one more thing. I have a question. Have you ever thought of starting a new education program, different from playing the piano, maybe enrolling another college or attend some courses? and if so, in which sphere? Thx for expressing yourself here!!!❤❤Xx

[@bloodgrss]

No pianist, even Yuja Wang, is ever perfect. You are a bright light in classical music...

[@maplecozy]

?? She is a far more graceful pianist then Wang. Tiffany puts music first. Wang puts her image first.

[@bloodgrss]

@@maplecozy Do not let your fandom cloud your musically critical facility. You are obviously unfamiliar with Wang's performance history, and listen with a fanatic ear. Tiffany, much as I love her approach, skill, and aspirations, is yet to be a finished virtuoso like Yuja Wang. Your rather sexist allusion to Yuja's dress is fine for you, as Tiffany seems more modest in dress. But that has nothing to do with musical accomplishment. Tiffany would like Yuja's career and musical genius/ she may someday approach it...

[@warrenj3204]

Especially Yuja Wang.

[@bloodgrss]

@@warrenj3204 What Tiffany would hope to be...

[@deandaniel4911]

@bloodgrss no, she wants to be Tiffany Poon. Thank God she is.

[@hbcovers6765]

i loveeee ittttttt

[@이사믄육]

I'm your big fan😽😽😽😽😽

[@houlongtong5046]

Can u plz do a video in full Cantonese?

[@movimox]

🙌🙌🙌

[@martinbennett2228]

I think Grigory Sokolov would have thoroughly taken that piano apart. Notes that fail to sound must be a nightmare.

[@bernardgerardin7584]

💎

[@JM-ig4ed]

really love your vlogs. I know they take a lot of time and appreciate that you spent the hours on thanksgiving preparing this. Have followed you from the beginning. I'm not likely to go to spotify so hope you continue with vlogging as much as you can. Question: I always wonder about the encores. As an audience member, I am never sure if there will be another encore or not - how do you judge that? Has there ever been a hesitation or thinking if there should be another? Or do you always presume you will have them? Sometimes when the performer leaves the stage and then with continued applause, they come back on - but lots of times they take too long before coming back out and it feels very awkward to me.

[@dimitrovboeleepianoduo]

Thanks for sharing! Sorry for the dangling keys that's horrible!! People don't realize how sensitive musicians ears are, especially when we're all pumped up with adrenaline on stage!

[@juancarlosleiva1411]

That is a pretty weird piano, but I thought you were able to pick whatever piano you wanted for a recital?

[@thetuncaydeniz]

❤

[@KrajnikPizmovy]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@scorpioxrocky]

a new vlog!!!

[@manueladevilliers5301]

It seems that that piano is not well regulated?

[@firsttpt]

Interesting. Other instrumentalists get to take their trumpets, flutes, accordions, etc with them and don't have to adapt so much to the vagaries of craftsmanship on the spot. (Not to mention the nature of wood, weather and the humidifier at the concert hall)

[@Dannerooo]

🔥

[@DrQuizzler]

A couple of things stood out for me here. Your mistake which wasn't really a mistake, since it was harmonically correct. I think I've been there, like, "It was wrong, but it still worked." Your weird piano actions, I'm guessing their tech intentionally sets all their pianos that way, for whatever reason. It reminded me of another pianist whom I follow who has a Yamaha acoustic grand in her apartment which has a built-in digital piano, where the dual key actions make it challenging to control nuanced soft dynamics on the acoustic side. It was also interesting to see your groggy jet-lagged self looking for your center by playing some Bach and willing the world around you to quiet down. That reminds me of me, only in my case, it's Stevie Wonder. Congrats on the concert. It seems to have gone really well, despite the initial hiccups.

[@mandubun]

god you inspire me

[@Jacob-ss2sl]

My teacher's piano is like that it drives me crazy.

[@chlorine8477]

07:21 backstage noise... 07:23 *kills some people off camera* 07:26 back to business

[@Wilson-Piano]

😃

[@LaurentPingaultLyon]

Ask for another piano. They should provide it for you desserve it

[@johorn2887]

Turns oht you did or didnt miss them?

[@abdelkrimabounouar6588]

Hello 👋

[@PsychHacks]

The weird action is something I’ve encountered in pianos that needed work. Without it, the dynamic range is restricted, and as you’ve intimated: Playing softly is especially difficult.

[@LastFreeEagle]

10:00 All keys on my piano 😔

[@777guy1]

Don't look at me with those eyes Tiffany or else you'll make me fall in love 😳