Avri Levitan explains: “How do we teach music performance? There are thousands of academies all around the world, in almost every city. Most people begin to learn in a young age of 5 to 6 years and some of them dedicate their life to music so they continue towards higher musical education. That is where we come in, the university music professor. Our teaching should start by basics, to explain what does it actually means to be an instrumentalist. During the process of playing, mechanical exercise, bring the instrument to our nature, awake our imagination of the music which will create it (the musical expression, rhythm, dynamics, etc.). But the most important thing to do to become great instrumentalist is to play to an audience, to perform. At the class concerts are only few students and some parents, very few objective and disinterested people. Student stress, if they are better or worse than the others, there is the sense of competition, comparison, judgement. It is not a perfect moment to make a perfect part of Brahms sonata, to really give all of yourself into music. What we have to remember is that the musical text himself has no meaning, it has a meaning only when it’s in the air and reaches the audience. Performing is every moment when you touch an instrument and play for someone else. Whether it is for one person or for a full concert hall. Most importantly it doesn’t matter who is in the public: Brahms didn’t write a different sonata for a poor person, different one for a rich person, one for children or adults. E-flat major is the same for a bus driver as it is for a German president. Music is pure”. 

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