omg, SIPCA! I got all hyped up about it last year...
Yeah, I actually thought Rem was a better player, but my dad was raving on and on about how John seemed more talented. I guess he's probably more natural, but he didn't appeal to me that much. And yes, Rem Urasin kinda didn't do his last concerto too well. I admit John did a very good job...but meh...
From experience though, as my 70-year-old piano teacher says, the best person never wins SIPCA...the best person is normally People's Choice prize. Probably it's rigged, but nobody can prove it, so I'm just going to pretend to live in oblivion.
I only watched one of the Round II councerts...the rest I sort of tuned into on the ABC radio.
BTW, **refers to first post** I'm Lillo...I'm sixteen, started thrashing around on the piano when I was two (or eleven months if you believe my dad's photos), got my first formal lesson aged six and a half, finished 8th grade last year and am sort of floating around between 8th grade and an AMus. Right now I'm working on some AMus pieces, but my favourite thing to do is just to muck around and compose my own pop-style pieces with lyrics to go with, and I like singing along (though my voice isn't really powerful enough).
Before you say it, yes, I know, I sound like another Delta Goodrem wannabe, but get me straight, I'm not fanatical about her. In fact when I saw her in one of her clips some time ago I thought her technique was crap, but that could've been just the camera angle.
