pianist from the sea

Chapter 342 I don’t know, but I believe in Dio
Rebecca followed Zimmerlin, and the two walked to the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall.

Almost all music brokerage companies, to be precise, all classical music brokerage companies have basically come here.

At the same time, in addition to the Berlin Philharmonic, there were also directors from other theaters and orchestras participating in the negotiations. They also came to the Berlin Philharmonic.

As for those who did not come, they joined the discussion through video conferencing.

Obviously, everyone is thinking about how to carve up the market left by Lang Liangyue.

Of course, this is true for the people in these brokerage companies.

For those in the orchestra, they are thinking about how to allocate Lang Liangyue's work so that their tours or music seasons will not be too ordinary without a top pianist.

When everyone sat down in their seats, Sir Simon spoke first.

"I think... all of you should already know that Lang Liangyue needs to temporarily leave the classical music scene due to a hand injury. I don't need to explain the details. You should all know it yourself.

Otherwise, you would not have come to the door of our Berlin Philharmonic so quickly, wanting to ask us if we can allocate some of Lang Liangyue's work to our artists. "

Seeing that some people in the crowd were a little unable to sit still, Sir Simon took the lead in waving his hands and continued.

"I know you are in a hurry, but don't be in a hurry. Even if you want to refute, it is not at this time.

Because I must tell you that during the Berlin Philharmonic’s Asian tour, all pianists who can appear must be Asian!This is undeniable and cannot be changed!

Therefore, if your pianist is not Asian, please do not continue to discuss with me whether you can replace Lang Liangyue.

Because even if we discuss it, I won’t give you any room for agreement! "

Speaking of this place, Sir Simon glanced at the people around him.

Obviously, some anxious people do not dare to do more operations at this time.

They could only sit there obediently, listening to Sir Simon's arrangements like Rebecca.

After Sir Simon said these words, he turned his attention to Zimmerin and the several agents with confident faces around him, and spoke to them.

"All in all, this allocation is actually more like a tender. I hope to see your respective tender documents, rather than just talking about it and trying to use words to gain your own interests.

Zimmerling, Ruth, Cabrens, I have just seen the documents sent by your companies. Your respective artists are listed on them. Some of them are familiar to us, and some are not familiar to us.

First of all, Dior Fu and Jia Wang, these two were originally the musicians in our plan.

Just as you want, we will consider adjusting the number of games for Dior and Jia upwards to a suitable position. We will discuss the specific number of games later.

What we need to discuss now is the arrangements for three concerts that we have reserved in addition to Dior and Jia! "

Three concerts?
Everyone was stunned for a moment, not expecting that the Berlin Philharmonic would actually give three concerts.

The minimum income for a concert is 5000 euros. If you can win all three concerts, your guaranteed income is 1.5 euros.

It may not seem like much, but in fact the income will far exceed this amount of 1.5 euros.

Because you can't just perform with them and become a piano jinchuriki among them.

You must have your own commercial development.

The three concerts basically mean that you can use the channels of the Berlin Philharmonic to get in touch with the channels of classical music release in three regions.

If you can make money later, 15 euros is the minimum price.

Not to mention that your reputation will be tied to the Berlin Philharmonic. Many people will pay attention to you because of the Berlin Philharmonic and start buying your CDs.

Zimmerlin remained silent at this time. After all, he had been promised that Fu Tiao could get many extra concerts.

At this time, Fu Diao's main competitor was the one sitting next to him.

Wang Jia's agent, Ruth.

Their eyes crossed, and neither one spoke first, but continued to watch the others competing for the right to perform in the three concerts.

Everyone talks about the advantages of their own musicians.

Talk about so-and-so in your family who is in hot shape recently.

Tell me who is better.

It’s basically that level of bragging.

This level of self-promotion came to an end with an unknown manager who did not seem to have a classical music agency in Germany.

The man spoke very fluent English with a strong French accent and began to speak to Sir Simon.

"Sir Simon, I must introduce to you our artist, Zhao Chengzhen!"

"Zhao Chengzhen?"

After hearing the name, Zimmerin was stunned for a moment.

Not only that, some people around him were also stunned.

Zhao Chengzhen's name was not unfamiliar to them, or in other words, very familiar.

Zhao Chengzhen actually became famous before Fu Tiao became famous.

Even before the Chopin International Piano Competition, Zhao Chengzhen had already made a little bit of a name for herself in competition venues around the world.

He has even become the idol of many young pianists.

In other words, without Fu Tiao, Zhao Chengzhen might have become as top a pianist as Fu Tiao.

After all, the title of first place in the Chopin International Piano Competition is much louder than the title of second place in the Chopin International Piano Competition.

If he can win the title of first place in the Chopin International Piano Competition, then he may lead all the honors in front of him and become the best newcomer of the year.

It's a pity that Fu Tiao's sudden appearance interrupted all his plans.

If Fu Tiao just appeared out of nowhere and did not show the ability to crush everything, then there is still a slight possibility that he will continue to grow.

But who would have thought that after Fu Diao was born, he not only successfully won the Chopin International Piano Competition, but also continued to grow in level without any restrictions.

Many invitations that should have been given to Zhao Chengzhen were all blocked by Fu Diao's sudden emergence and subsequent incredible growth.

Eventually he became what everyone sees now, a top pianist.

As a result, Zhao Chengzhen, who was originally the focus of everyone's attention, gradually disappeared, while Fu Tiao became the darling of the new generation of classical music in everyone's eyes.

Hearing Zhao Chengzhen's name, Zimmerin even felt a little dazed.

He didn't know how long it had been since he heard Zhao Chengzhen's name.

He had also followed Zhao Chengzhen before and chatted with Zhao Chengzhen for a while.

At that time, Zhao Chengzhen could be considered very high-spirited. He directly rejected all the brokerage companies, saying that he would make a decision after winning the Chopin International Piano Competition.

Later, when Zhao Chengzhen won second place, he also went to find Zhao Chengzhen and asked him if he wanted to continue signing an agency contract with their Deutsche Grammophon company to represent his subsequent growth.

But unfortunately, Zhao Chengzhen rejected them and ended up going to the same agency as his teacher at the Conservatoire Supérieure de Music in Paris, with an agent he was not very familiar with.

It was probably the agent in front of him who was trying to introduce Zhao Chengzhen.

For a moment, he even felt a little bit of the impermanence of the world.

However, the agent didn't seem to feel the crowd's emotions, and continued to introduce everyone very seriously.

"Zhao Chengzhen is definitely the strongest Asian among the new generation of pianists, besides Fu Tiao!
I don’t think I need to say anything more to you. You should also know Zhao Chengzhen’s resume.

The professors at the Conservatoire Supérieure de Musique de Paris whom he followed have always given Zhao Chengzhen countless care and help.

With these care and help, Zhao Chengzhen successfully received numerous praises from the Paris classical music community.

Become the most popular classical music pianist in Paris, and even in France!
His sincerity for music and his desire to interpret the music itself have conquered almost all music critics who have heard his performances!Sir Simon, you should have heard Zhao Chengzhen's name. As an Asian, he can definitely perform on behalf of South Korea. I remember that you are also preparing to perform in South Korea. Don't you really think about Zhao Chengzhen?He will definitely surprise you! "

"Zhao Chengzhen..."

Sir Simon also had some hesitation at this moment.

Just as the man in front of him said, he had indeed heard of Zhao Chengzhen's reputation.

He had paid attention to the young pianist before.

But he has one problem, that is, he doesn't know much about the pianist's current situation.

After all, after the Chopin International Piano Competition, Zhao Chengzhen did not continue to look for other opportunities to become famous. Instead, she directly chose to return to the Conservatoire Supérieure de Music in Paris to study. She stopped paying attention to everything and started to settle down directly.

He never heard Zhao Chengzhen's performance again.

Therefore, he asked the agent.

"Does Zhao Chengzhen have any...recordings over there? I really want to hear his recent status. I don't need his Chopin because we don't play Chopin. I want to hear something fresh. He has never played it." Nothing that’s ever been played.”

"Of course there is!"

The agent's eyes lit up, he dug out his package, took out a USB flash drive and handed it to the staff at the side.

The staff inserted the USB flash drive into a small player and handed it to Sir Simon.

Sir Simon played Zhao Chengzhen's music without any hesitation and became slightly silent listening to the content.

Seeing Sir Simon being so silent, the agent was a little nervous for a moment.

He didn't know whether Sir Simon liked Zhao Chengzhen's performance.

Fortunately, Sir Simon seemed a little surprised by Zhao Chengzhen's performance. He nodded slowly and said.

"Although it is not as dazzling as Dior's performance, I have to admit that Zhao Chengzhen is one of the few musicians I have seen who is deeply involved in the composer himself!"

"Of course! After all, this is the main performance direction of the French School of Music, so he will naturally focus his main attention on the composer himself!"

The agent couldn't help but grin when he saw Sir Simon agreeing with Zhao Chengzhen. Then he looked at Zimmerin and others and added.

"As for not being as good as Dior, Fu and Jia Wang, I think this is normal. Jia became famous very early and is almost ten years older than Zhao Chengzhen. But Dior... he is just a pervert, so he shouldn't be Who can compare with Dior? It’s normal if he can’t.”

"Even Jia, I feel like it may not be as good as Dior."

Ruth, who had been silent all this time, Wang Jia's manager also laughed at this time. After giving a slight compliment to Fu Tiao, he spoke to Zimmerin.

"Zimmerin, how about a deal?"

"trade?"

Zimmerlin looked at Ruth in front of him in confusion, with a slightly cold expression: "What deal do we have with you? You are from Universal Company, and your main business direction is not in Europe. Do we have any good deals? …Are you going to hand over Wang Jia’s Asia tour to us?”

Ruth smiled: "Why not? Of course I can give it to you!"

"Ok?"

After hearing this answer, Zimmerin was stunned for a moment, then he had some thoughts in his mind, looked at Ruth in front of him, pondered for a moment, and then spoke.

"You mean...Europe?"

"Well, of course!"

Ruth nodded: "I can give you Wang Jia's performances at the Berlin Philharmonic's Asian tour in exchange for some performances by your Deutsche Grammophon company in Europe. How about it? Think about it?"

"Not enough, and..."

Zimmerin shook his head directly: "Have you not tried so many times? Let Wang Jia go to the European market and see if he can impress the audience in the European market. I think you should already have the answer. Obviously, Wang Jia has not There is a way to do it. You have all made a lot of efforts for this. At present, the only person Wang Jia can control is probably..."

Zimmerlin thought for a while and then hesitantly said: "Vienna's Golden Hall, that concert hall that you can go to if you pay money?"

"Try it, you won't lose money anyway."

Ruth smiled and said: "If that doesn't work out, we can still make an exchange here. For example... open a way for your Dior to perform in North America? The radiation in South America is also more difficult to control. But there is still no problem in North America, and even Carnegie in New York is not impossible."

Speaking of this, he stretched out his hand to Zimmerin.

"Do you want to cooperate? Let Wang Jia come to Europe and give us some of Lang Liangyue's European market? You won't suffer."

"Wang Jia, Europe..."

Zimmerin hesitated.

What he is hesitating about now is not whether to do this cooperation or not.

Because this cooperation is really too tempting. Basically, it is equivalent to saying that as long as Deutsche Grammophon does not attack so strongly, their Universal parent company can give them generous rewards.

Deutsche Grammophon was acquired by Universal's parent company and is a music agency owned by Universal.

It sounds like a subordinate relationship, but in fact, the two still have a competitive relationship, and there is no unlimited sharing of resources between the two.

Many of the resources Lang Liangyue received in Europe were not only Lang Liangyue's own influence, but also the joint efforts of Universal and Deutsche Grammophon.

And if Lang Liangyue gives up resources, the ones most likely to get them are Universal and Deutsche Grammophon.

However, because Universal's main business operations are still in North America, not Europe, their control over Europe is not that strong.

Therefore, almost all the resources left by Lang Liangyue are likely to pass through the hands of Deutsche Grammophon and then be redistributed.

Except for the Berlin Philharmonic, which is particularly independent and needs a complete tour, it may require new partners.

For example, concert halls such as Frankfurt's Old Opera House, which are not particularly autonomous, or concert halls like the Vienna Musikverein, which you can pay to attend, are basically within the control of Deutsche Grammophon.

If they can't eat any more, they will give it to others.

What Universal wants now is for Deutsche Grammophon to eat a little slower, not to be too anxious to eat a fat man in one go, to eat very full, not to throw away the unnecessary things, but to give some to their people.

If the main person in charge of Deutsche Grammophon came to talk, they would most likely agree directly.

After all, it's really rich.

But Zimmerlin is different.

What he was thinking more about was the development of Fu Diao.

Because now Fu Tiao and Wang Jia are both in the same state.

Both of them have their own god-level performances, and both are top-notch pianists.

Both of them have the same influence. Their influence is too limited, and they are still stuck as first-line pianists. They have not completely reached the global influence of Lang Liangyue and Argerich.

If European resources are given to Wang Jia, is it possible that Wang Jia will become a truly top-notch pianist with full strength and influence in advance, while Fu Diao will lose this opportunity?
Zimmerin looked at Rebecca who was taking notes hard next to him. After pondering for a long time, he asked her.

"Rebecca, you are Fu Tiao's agent now. What do you think about this matter?"

"Ok?"

Before Rebecca could speak, Ruth on the opposite side was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Change? Zimmerin, aren't you going to be Fu's manager anymore?"

Zimmerin said nothing, just looked at Rebecca.

Others were also looking at Rebecca with the same excitement.

This put a lot of pressure on Rebecca.

Facing countless pairs of eyes staring at her, she said hesitantly: "I, I... I don't know."

"But I believe in Dio."

(End of this chapter)