Music from the Ancient Times Sound from the Youth
Music Critic/Hua Xiang-ming
Music from the ancient times, sound from the youth: this beautiful meeting presents the wonderful encounter in Yimiao’s piano performance.
This kind of young life originates from the past, be permeated with the pulse of the times. The musical atmosphere from the ancient people immerses in Yimiao’s sound, natural and vivid, dolce and passionate, each note and every end of the timbre show their spirit and penetrate in people’s heart……
From the past to the present, from the small to the large scale, from the dream to the awakening, I appreciate the starting point that Yimiao takes, it makes the music in our modern world have a peaceful, delightful, graceful and classical coordinate. Her music naturally extends from the composers, but never imitate anybody’s performance deliberately, not like some artists who make themselves look old or young on purpose, make themselves look like knowledgeable but actually spoof someone else or perform with great affectation.
The rustle of the wind, the pureness of the moon, the roar of the ocean…… listening to Yimiao’s music, it always can touch my heart and shake my soul…… her music itself is like naturally containing endless power expanding to the universe, and also like the distant sky growing its clear light.
The life has its origin, and the art has its headstream. Apparently, Yimiao is an artist who understands how to inherit the tradition and also to be creative simultaneously, that extension which her persevered in more than a decade has Yimiao’s own logic and style. Natural and unrestrained, but not unbridled; rich and deep, but not showing off; magnificent and brilliant but not too fierce.
Piano is like life, as the music does. True, Yimiao is still young in her early twenties, she still has a long way to go to reach the peak of the art. She always telling me she is like “salute the Classical Music by the Youth” with self-deprecating humor. She shows her deep reverence to the classical music. This is her own unique spiritual path, which makes her have her own method and direction.
Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert…… Yimiao’s music is the direct externalization of the encounter her life and those great masters, therefore, her music always fulfilled with a great sense of young energy.
Music from the ancient times, sound from the youth.
(writer is a senior media man)