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The Piano Pod's latest episode will premiere this coming Tuesday, March 14th at 8pm Eastern Time.

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For this episode, I interviewed Ji-Yoon Kim, classical pianist, arts activist, YouTuber, and author.

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Here are some highlights from the interview.

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I think we have to remember there's a reason why you love playing piano.

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And I often were so bombarded with the environment of competitiveness of our own.

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Other things that you forget that and then focusing on other thing.

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But if you really listen to yourself, the very thing is music.

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If that very thing is piano, then you can uncover the layering out and then try to be in tune with yourself.

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I grew up in a very unrealistic setting which is surrounded by pianist, surrounded by classical musician.

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My audience were professors and students who memorize all the Beethoven sonatas by opus number and they know.

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But then when I went into the real, real actual audience, they don't even care.

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They don't know anything about it.

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And then when I play certain pieces and in my head I was thinking, I made that mistake, I made memory mistake there.

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I could have done that technically better.

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It doesn't make any sense to them.

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More important that I realized is they want to connect with me.

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Music supposed to be connected through souls to souls and in that space.

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And I believe that music completes the circle when we play and share life.

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And I think that's why every time whenever I perform, it's difficult.

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But that's the function of the music that I give but then I receive.

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And the most beautiful concert or the most, I would not say perfect, but the most rewarding concert,

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it's not last mistake concert, but then the concerts that I felt the most engaged with the music,

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with myself and the music and inevitably audience receive as well.

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Well, more on this topic, join the premiere of this episode with Jeon Kim on Tuesday, March 14th at 8pm Eastern on the Piano Pods YouTube channel.

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And as always, you can listen to the audio podcast of this episode wherever you get your podcast.

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