Mentari started learning from Iryna Vokhmyanina in September 2018, at Tanglewood Music School.
The first pieces she learned were from the Russian book 2: Haydn's Menuett and Berkowitsch's Variations on folk tunes. She also for the first time learning to play the scales.
In Nov 2018, she took part in the internal grading in house by the music school. What she had to do?
- Scales (assessed by another piano teacher during the lessons)
- Etudes: played Lemoine Op. 37 No 1 and 2 (assessed during the lessons)
- Pieces: (1) Berkowithsch's Variations on folk tunes, (2) Benda's Sonatina in A minor, and (3) Tchaikovsky's Mazurka. (performed in concert)
Nin also came to the concert, afterwards we celebrated by dinner at Nandos. When the exam results were released: she passed with Distinction!
There were two concerts, in October 2018 at the Halloween concert (in-house at music school), playing an Ehrhard's polka for duet with ibu. Then in December 2018 at the christmas concert, playing Italian Souvenir for a duet with ibu. These two pieces were recorded in January 2019 (recordings are hard!!) and submitted for Brilliant Talent Discovery Award for duet category, in which Mentari and Ibu won a Bronze! Woohoo!
Learned pieces:
Haydn
Menuett (from Symphone N 100 G-dur) (book 2 no 21)
Berkowitsch
Variations from Russian folksongs (book 2 no 41) - performed for Grade 2 internal exam
Benda
Sonatina in A minor - performed for Grade 2 internal exam (but this is actually a Grade 4 ABRSM piece)
Tchaikovsky
Mazurka (from Children's book Op 39 No 10)
Lemoine
Etudes Enfantines Op 37 no 1, 2 - performed for Grade 2 internal exam
Etudes Enfantines Op 37 no 3
Leshgorn
Etude Op 65 No 8
Heller
Etude in C
Ehrhardt
Seven Dance Rhythms The D scale polka (duet with Ibu) - performed in Halloween concert, submitted for BTDA awards
Y. Krasavin
Italian Souvenir (duet with Ibu) - performed in Christmas concert, submitted for BTDA awards
Performance video
Sonatina in A minor (Benda), performed at Pianovers meetup as a preparation for the Grade 2 internal exam (8 years old, Nov 2018)
Italian Souvenir (Y. Krasavin), performed at Pianovers meetup (8 years old, almost 9, Dec 2018), a warm up for the Tangle wood Christmas concert.
Italian Souvenir (Y. Krasavin), performed at Tanglewood Christmas concert (Dec 2018).
Practice videos
Mazurka (8 years old, Nov 2018), practicing from Grade 2 internal exam. The playing at the exam was much more smoothly (and got high mark), unfortunately no recording was allowed. There was a camera from the school, but the operator forgot to turn on the button!
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Etude - Heller (9 years old, Feb 2019)
