This time I have participated the piano bridges amateur piano competition for the first time. I have been interested in overseas amateur piano competition since 2011, so I participated some overseas amateur piano competition in Ill-de-France, Paris, Chicago between 2012~2014. I have been also interested in Piano Bridges piano competition since 2011, but it is difficult for me to prepare for travel to Russia, so I have not been able to challenge it for several years. In 2020, due to COVID-19, the world has been changed, and the condition of many piano competitions has also changed I think. I have been quite busy seriously as a worker of the Japanese government finance institution, which is a kind of Bank for small and medium enterprises in Japan because of COVID-19. So, this time , I am very lucky and happy that the 10th piano bridges amateur piano competition is held by ONLINE . While I have been in Japan, I can prepare for submitting my performance and trying to my best performance as much as possible. After I came to know the piano bridges amateur piano competition this time, I sent some e-mail to the competition committee, staffs gave me answers quickly and kindly told me many informations about the guidelines of competition. I am not so good at English, so staffs of the competition helped me a lot, thank you very much. Thanks for them, I participated in the competition with very relax feeling. After 2nd November, every day I enjoyed listening to many other candidates' performances. Though the competition is not held on stage in the concert hall, we could easily connect and listening to many candidates at the same time on the Internet. This fact is quite important and precious experience all over the world I think. Through the competition this year, I enjoyed many other candidates' performance and I made friends with some of them on Facebook, it is very enjoyable to communicate with other candidates like this. I do hope that COVID-19 is disappear as soon as possible, but if it were still appear after 2021, I would like to hope that this competition will be held on ONLINE again, and if so, I would like to challenge again! Thank you very much for competition committee staffs and congratulations that the 10th competition was held successfully! And I do hope this competition will continue for a long time! Sincerely yours Hirokazu Nagakusa
Hirokazu Nagakusa
2020-11-25