pianist from the sea

Chapter 281 Dio Fu!
"Congratulations, Fu!" Arkadi raised the wine glass in his hand to Fu Diao, his eyes calm, without any trace of anger or resentment because Fu Diao won his Rookie of the Year award this year, "You Great playing.”

Fu Tiao looked at him, a little surprised for a moment, then raised the wine glass in his hand, raised it slightly at him, and smiled back.

"Thank you, Mr. Vallodos!"

Arkadi Vallodos, this is Arkadi’s full name.

Although Arkady told him that he liked Fu Diao's performance very much and congratulated him on successfully winning the best award at this year's Ruhr Piano Festival, this was not the reason for Fu Diao to disrespect the person in front of him.

Even though it had been almost three months since Arkadi's performance, his interpretation of the music still left a very deep impression on him.

It is even said that without Arkadi's performance and the god-level performance that Arkadi showed him, it would be impossible for Fu Tiao to perform the so-called god-level performance.

Fu Tiao looked at Arkadi's face, couldn't help but smile, and said to Arkadi.

"Mr. Valodos, thank you for your divine performance that night. You opened up my thoughts and ideas about music. For the first time, I felt that music can be played in this way. It is not just about individuals showing their own musical ideas. The idea of ​​music is to perfect it from the audience, venue, and other directions, turning music into a live interactive experience, not just a simple music player playing.”

"Wow, Fu, music player? If you say that about yourself, how many others do you think will be ashamed to death? The music player successfully won the best new artist at this year's Ruhr Piano Festival and played god-level live music. Player, the music player of the winner of the Chopin International Piano Competition? Haha, if possible, I also want to be such a music player."

After hearing this, Arkady couldn't help but grinned, reached out and patted Fu Diao on the shoulder, then gestured towards the distance with the hand holding the wine glass, and joked to Fu Diao.

"So, Mr. Great Music Player, can you accompany me over there?"

"Of course, no problem, Mr. Valodos!"

Fu Diao nodded and said with the same smile.

After getting rid of the complicated negotiations at the backstage of the concert hall, the two wandered to the backstage of the music.

Here, although there are still some staff setting up the stage, it is quiet enough compared to the previous place. Everyone is making the final arrangements for the stage. No one cares about Fu Diao and Ah who are standing backstage. Cardi Valodos.

Arkady took a look at the surrounding area and calmed down. He let out a long sigh, casually put the wine glass aside, then loosened the tie around his neck and smiled teasingly at Fu.

"Fu, don't be so nervous, just find a quiet place to chat. I won't be jealous that you won this year's Rookie of the Year position, and I won't eat you up because of this. Don't be nervous. "

"I know. After all, I'm not light. You shouldn't be able to eat me in one meal."

Fu Diao responded with the same smile, and then put the wine glass in his hand aside, but he did not loosen the tie at the collar like Arkadi did.

After all, Arkady was just sitting off the stage doing nothing, and if he remembered correctly, he was going to go on stage to receive the award later. This tie was something he had to sort out with great difficulty.

However, after finishing the tie, he felt a little regretful. He knew that he would not need a tie, but a bow tie. He felt that the tie was more convenient. The tie seemed to be too mature for him, and it didn't particularly match his face.

"Every time I see your face and think about your achievements at the Classical Music Festival, I always feel an indescribable sense of dissonance. No matter how hard I think about it, I can't imagine that such a performance would appear to such a young man. body."

Arkadi felt the same way. He looked at Fu Diao with an emotional expression and sighed.

"Looking at you, I really feel that I am old, and those people of the same generation as me are also old. Although I have only been in my twenties since I became famous, I still remember the time when I was ninety years old. At that time, after the release of my first album, it became the new favorite of students at conservatories in New York and throughout the United States, and all of them were proud to own a copy of my album."

"Ninety years ago... I seem to have just been born?" Fu Diao joked, stroking his chin.

"Yes, maybe it was when you were just born. As a result, I have been making progress in the past few years, but I didn't expect that my efforts in these years could not beat your efforts in the past few years. Sometimes I really doubt that you Is this the rebirth of a certain big-shot pianist?"

"For example, Lang Liangyue? He always said that he was the reincarnation of the pianist Horowitz."

"Yes! For example, Lang Liangyue! No, there seems to be another person, who is also a person from your country..."

"Li Diyun?"

"Yes, yes, Li Diyun, yes, that's him, your memory is so good, hahahaha!"

Arkady immediately laughed after hearing this, and praised Fu Diao: "Yes, just like them, I feel that compared to Horowitz reincarnating into them, I feel that Horowitz is reincarnating." I chatted with God for a while on the way, and after delaying for a while, it is more reasonable for me to be reincarnated into you."

"It's like a Chinese legend. When we were drinking Meng Po soup on Huangquan Road, we met Meng Po's eyes and chatted for a while?"

"Well, although I don't know much about the legend of death in your country, I feel that there is no difference between what you said and what I said."

Arkady smiled, looked at the workers around him who were working hard to move bricks, shook his head, took a deep breath, and sighed.

"But looking at all this, I am really emotional. I have worked hard for so long, but in the end I didn't get anything. But all this fell on you, the best of the year at the Ruhr Piano Festival, this position It’s not as simple as ordinary people think, you have to be careful in the future.”

"Careful? Why?"

"It's nothing, it's just that this honor brings not only an honor, but also a requirement. You are not an old person like me, you are a young person, Fu, think back to the fact that you also won the best award at the Ruhr Piano Festival. people, who are they?”

"them……"

Fu Diao thought for a while, suddenly became a little silent, and slowly said:
"Christian Zimmermann, Marta Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini, Sir Andras Schiff , Marc Andrei Hamelin, Helena Grimaud, Pierre Boulez, Bela Davidovich, Elizabeth Leonskaya..."

From 1998 to 2015, there have been 17 winners and 17 top piano masters in the world.

Although it was named the best rookie of the year, none of the people who actually gave the award could be called a rookie, everyone was a master.

Therefore, although it is called Best Newcomer, the award actually becomes Best Performer.

This can definitely be regarded as an award that does not live up to its name.

However, winning this award is enough to become the most glorious moment in the life resume of many pianists.

No, to be precise, it's not about winning this award, but... participating in the Ruhr Piano Festival.

Being invited to the Ruhr Piano Festival and successfully participating in it is enough to become an honor that cannot be concealed on many people's resumes.

This is the status of the Ruhr Piano Festival in the world, and this is also the status of the Ruhr Piano Festival's best newcomer in the world.

Although the description may not be particularly accurate, you can definitely think of this as the Spring Festival Gala in the piano industry, or a certain award.

This award is not widely publicized in China. Probably the main reason is that there are relatively few Chinese pianists participating in this music festival, or... almost none at all.

That is, people like Lang Liangyue can be invited to the Ruhr Piano Festival.

But why doesn’t his resume include the Ruhr Piano Festival?

The reason is that he has participated in too many other music festivals and won too many awards. His resume is more about the awards he won, rather than the music festivals he was invited to participate in. In addition, he did not win the Best Newcomer of the Year this year. , so we don’t do any publicity.

This award is not a cheap award that is given away for free as long as the top pianists participate.

There are a lot of music awards that deliberately put gold on their faces, saying that their awards have been given to so and so.

This award is one that even if you are the most awesome and famous pianist in the world, it may not be given to you. It still depends on your live performance.

Is Lang Liangyue famous?He is almost the strongest pianist of the younger generation.

Kissing is famous, right?A man hailed as a piano genius by the God of Conductors.

Not to mention other pianists, such as those old pianists from Japan, such as Mitsuko Uchida and others. Although they were also invited to participate in the Ruhr Piano Festival, they were still unable to win awards.

Now Fu Diao has won the title of Best Newcomer of the Year, becoming the first Asian pianist in history.This can be regarded as a cross-generational achievement.

It is not only the glory of China, but also the glory of East Asia and even Asia as a whole.

With such honor and such a young state, Arkady in front of him felt a slight discomfort in his throat.

He pursed his lips and croaked with emotion.

"Yeah, those top pianists, you don't want to compete with us, and you shouldn't compete with us. Your next goal is to compare with those top pianists. After all, you are the Ruhr Piano Festival The youngest among them, the ones everyone compares will no longer be those of your own age, such as Zhao Chengzhen, whom I was very optimistic about before, and Hamelin, but Zimmerman, Schiff, and Ah. Gritsch, it's Sokolov, it's them...

Dior, can I call you that?You must know one thing, what you need to compare next is not their current state, what you need to compare is their most powerful state, their history, and you must be clearer..."

Arkady turned to look at Fu Diao, and said with an extremely serious expression: "Some people, after they stop playing the piano, they will be completely sent to the altar, even if their current playing condition is ridiculously bad, such as Sokolov , such as Pollini, but their status is still much higher than yours. This is the golden body cast for them by their historical achievements. Can you... understand?"

Fu Tiao looked at Arkadi's expression. After being silent for a long time, he nodded slightly.

"I understand."

"As long as you understand, no matter what you understand, I have said everything I can say. It would be great if I could also win the Best of the Year this year. I still have some historical background to support me, even if I am beaten by others. I can still accept being called the worst player of the year in recent years, but it’s hard for you to say. Some people will praise you, but some people will curse you. Sometimes you have to learn to accept it, come on."

Arkadi patted Fu Diao on the shoulder, picked up the wine glass he had put aside without any hesitation, turned around and left, and continued chatting with the people backstage.

Fu Diao, on the other hand, was somewhat silent.

This silence lasted until an acquaintance from the organizing committee walked up to him.

The host, director, and general person in charge of the Ruhr Music Festival brought Miller to Fu Diao.

Miller stood behind the director and said nothing.

The director smiled at Fu Diao, put down the wine glass he was holding, and spoke softly.

"Fu..."

"Ok?"

Fu Diao was startled when he heard the sound. He turned his head and looked at the director and Miller behind him. He couldn't help but open his mouth, let out an eh and stretched out his hand.

"Mr. Director, and Mr. Miller? Why are you here?"

"Of course we have to come. After all, today is the closing ceremony of the Ruhr Piano Festival. If we don't come, how will this closing ceremony end?"

Miller couldn't help but complain behind the director.

The director had no idea. He just smiled and shook hands with Fu Diao, then shrugged slightly.

"Miller is right, but I think... you shouldn't call me director, I also have my own name, Franz Havel Honesog, Director of the Ruhr Piano Festival, Ruhr Piano Festival Foundation Chairman of the association, and general manager of the Ruhr Piano Festival Sponsorship and Service Center. Although I don’t meet you often, to be precise, it was only when I hosted your concert, but I think we should call each other by name. , not a position, after all, you don’t want me to call you Mr. Pianist, right?”

"Of course!" Fu Diao smiled awkwardly after hearing this: "Mr. Onesog, I'm sorry, I never had the chance to know your name, so I can only call you Mr. Director."

"No, this is not the point, and I don't care about it. After all, many people often don't call me by my name, but call me Mr. Host, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Manager, not Oneso Mr. G, right, Miller?"

Onesog and Miller behind him looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

After everyone laughed for a while, Onesog spoke to Fu Diao.

"Dior, congratulations, I think you have heard enough today. There is no need for us to say anything more, but I want to ask. I think you should have received the email from the organizing committee, right?"

"Are you talking about the letter I won the championship in this year's Chopin International Piano Competition?"

Fu Tiao took out his mobile phone, pulled up the email, nodded slightly and said: "Of course I received this email, which informed me that I won the title of Best Rookie of the Year this year. What's wrong? Suddenly came here to inform me Did I cancel my award?”

"No, no, no, how is that possible?" Onesog waved his hands repeatedly, "I'm definitely not here to tell you to cancel the award. I'm just here to ask you a few questions before awarding the award."

"Problem? What's the problem?"

"Very simple questions, are you interested in playing a few more charity concerts?"

"A charity...concert?" Fu Tiao asked a little puzzled, "What is a charity concert?"

"Tickets will be sold as normal concerts, and all the money from ticket sales will go to the Ruhr Piano Festival foundation as bonuses for next year and even the year after. At the same time, the money will also be used for subsidies. Local classical music education resources help more young musicians and students understand and learn music."

To put it simply, it's just working for free.

Fu Tiao immediately understood Onesog's intention.

He watched Onesog ponder for a moment, then nodded hesitantly.

"Yes, but it won't be this year. After all, you have to know that I still have a lot of performance tasks to complete this year. In a few days, I will go to the Salzburg Music Festival, where I need to work with my chamber orchestra members. Performing a chamber music, after the end of Salzburg, I may go back to rest for a while, there will be some performances in the school in the second half of the year, so..."

"Don't worry, if you want, just contact us anytime."

Onesog waved his hand and didn't care about Fu Tiao's answer, but continued to ask: "If you have the opportunity, would you want to bring your chamber music members to the Ruhr area? We have a meeting in Dortmund." A charity concert to help children in war-torn areas. This is not just the idea of ​​the Piano Festival in the Ruhr area. It will also participate in the charity Ruhr Derby in Dortmund and Schalke 04. If you are interested, let me know I can help you sign up to participate.”

"I need to go back and ask my chamber music friends for their opinions." Fu Tiao didn't reply immediately.

However, Onesog frowned a little at this point. He spread his hands slightly and said helplessly.

"I hope you can answer me as soon as possible, preferably tonight, because we plan to announce this matter at the closing ceremony tonight. If you agree, we can start building momentum, probably next year. Around February, if you don’t agree, we will announce it, but it won’t have your name on it.”

"I can't agree directly. After all, I can't agree for my teammates, but..."

Fu Diao pondered, finally nodded, and asked, "How is this fund calculated?"

"All the money from the tickets goes into our foundation and is then turned into food, clothes and other daily necessities through our channels and sent to the war-torn areas. This is charity for the Ruhr area, not our family's charity."

Onesog spoke.

After hearing what Onesog said, Fu Cao thought about it and agreed.

"I can participate in this, but I still can't bring my orchestra with me. I need to go back and ask their opinions."

"Okay, then it's settled. If we are lucky enough to get support, we can also enter those places to perform condolences together, but everything is still unknown."

Onesog nodded to Fu Diao and extended his hand to salute slightly.

Ding!
The bell rang and the closing ceremony was about to begin. The people who had been chatting in the background and those who were standing outside the concert hall swarmed towards the concert hall after hearing the bell.

At this time, Onesog also walked up behind Fu Diao, patted him on the back, straightened his body, and said with a smile.

"Okay, get ready to go on stage to receive the award, our best newcomer."

"Dior Fu!"

(End of this chapter)