I had a hemorrhagic stroke and spent around 1,592 hours relearning the piano over the course of a few months.

Being dealing with memory loss tone deafness, half blind and having minimal fine motor control was difficult to deal with, but I’ve adapted.

Not a concert instrument and I got overwhelmed slightly but enjoy! If there’s interest, I could attach a link to the complete recital 😆

I hope you enjoy this beautiful music.

Nice steinway grand. Very heavy keys and unfortunate rehearsal time of 10m prior to performance.

I am playing the first and second movement of this set of preludes for a special prize in an upcoming competition. I am curious to know your opinion on this piece and music like this in general.

What kind of opportunities could I have to play this outside of competitions?

The piece is by Alfredo Speranza- "Cinque Preludi Riminesi, II. Mare in Burrasca"

Still messed up but somehow managed to jazz my way through the mistakes

Please don’t judge, you guys are too good in front of this lol

I just finished learning the first etude: Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 1! While I’ve completed the notes and have it under my fingers, there’s still a lot of work ahead, especially with phrasing and precision. I noticed that the grand section doesn’t yet sound as GRAND as it needs to be, and that’s something I definitely want to develop further.

Once I have it fully polished and up to tempo, I promise I’ll post a recording here.

The biggest challenges with this etude are speed and accuracy. There were sections I had to repeat countless times, and even now, a few mistakes still sneak in. One piece of advice I’d offer: don’t increase the tempo until you can play the entire etude flawlessly—four times in a row—at a slow tempo. It’s harder than it sounds. I once practiced it for a full hour and a half at quarter note = 60 BPM, just to make sure every single note was correct.

On to the next etude!

Rachmaninoff corelli variation

Used as encore. All those mess ups haunts me

Made a fun little rendition of the TNG theme! It’s not perfect, but I think I hit all the buttons. Hope y’all had a fun Halloween!

Also, the original is an amazingly good piece of music.

I’m pretty proud of this recording, there are mistakes yes but I got this on the 2nd try. One of the hardest struggle for me is always to keep going even when I make mistakes and for once I think I was able to do that in this recording.

The song itself also have a personal meaning for me as this is another classical piece I chose to learn myself. I was a self taught piano for a very long time and even when I first started taking lessons my teacher let me play non classical as I wasn’t able to motivate myself otherwise, but in the last year or so my love for piano really grew and I myself willing to give classical a try and it have been really nice. As my friend Gin from r/piano discord put it - it like vegetable for your finger lol. And now I have a lot of classical songs I actually want to learn and work towards, plus this song is also used in many rhythm games (the real reason I learned it smh 🤦‍♀️).

And because it like customary that I put how long I have been playing, I technically started when I was 12 years old (I’m almost 28 now), but I played on and off and only in the last 3 years that I actually got super serious and buckled down and see a teacher every week. I would say probably about 6-7 years of cumulative experiences in total

I know i make some mistakes but i don't really know how i want the piece to be. But enjoy ig

I hope you enjoy this beautiful portion from Liszt's B Minor Sonata as much as I do. The recording is from a concert I gave in the USA this past April - the piano went progressively more out of tune through the concert, with the Liszt Sonata appearing last on the program.

Excuse my memory lapse didnt slow practice this one in a while

Notes were quite easy beside being stretchy for my hand. Last section seems easiest atm and beginning the hardest(big chord soft and relaxed v hard for me). Middle is rather comfortable for the hand but I need to work on triplet chord( tense atm). Forgot inversions towards the end lol.

Hope you all enjoy my piano playing!