{"id":48082,"date":"2024-10-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41889a1c-9149-410c-8c86-d814ec8a3771"},"modified":"2024-10-05T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T09:07:16","slug":"dont-let-your-inner-monologue-get-in-the-way-why-nervousness-and-stage-fright-are-all-in-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/dont-let-your-inner-monologue-get-in-the-way-why-nervousness-and-stage-fright-are-all-in-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Don’t let your inner monologue get in the way’: Why nervousness and stage fright are all in the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pianist Arsha Kaviani reveals his strategies for coping with nervousness and performance anxiety…<\/strong><\/p>

The performance is not about you… it’s about the music<\/h2>
If ever I get nervous, I have a set of thought processes that I go through. But ultimately, I feel that nervousness is quite a self-absorbed emotion. <\/p>
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If you are feeling nervous about a performance, you\u2019re making that performance very much about yourself \u2013 \u2018What if I get this wrong, or don\u2019t remember to do that?\u2019 \u2013 and you\u2019re not being totally at the service of the music. If we can detach ourselves from thoughts like, \u2018What if this performance goes badly?\u2019, \u2018What will happen to my career?\u2019 and so on, the emotions feel much easier to manage.\u00a0<\/p>
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Don’t let your inner monologue get in the way<\/h2>
My mentor, the pianist Krystian Zimerman<\/a><\/strong>, has a great approach to this. He reminds me to imagine all the audience members who have had to book in advance, find a babysitter, put on a nice jacket, park their car\u2026 They have been to a lot of effort to come and hear a transcendent musical experience. You shouldn\u2019t let your inner monologue get in the way of that.\u00a0<\/p>
<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">British\/Iranian virtuoso Arsha Kaviani plays Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra<\/figcaption><\/figure>Just focus on delivering the most faithful transmission between composer and listener. If nervousness occurs, that\u2019s fine \u2013 you can observe them from a more objective perspective, as opposed to internalising them (\u2018I\u2019m nervous, therefore I\u2019m going to mess up\u2019).<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/simone-biles-gemma-new\">Timing, poise and mental calm: why Simone Biles is an inspiration for all musicians<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why performing is like pottery<\/h2>Performance, for me, is like being a potter. The pottery wheel that\u2019s spinning away is the years of preparation you\u2019ve put in \u2013 to this piece, to your technique. As a performer, this is running in the background constantly. All you have to do is fine-tune: give this moment a bit of extra expression, or spoonfeed a melody if you feel the audience is hearing it for the first time. These are the things that make a performance magical.\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/how-to-avoid-burnout\">How to avoid burnout: advice for musicians and those in any stressful job<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>Arsha Kaviani\u2019s debut album \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B0D7VZJQD4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Accents & Echoes<\/a><\/strong>\u2019 is out now on SRSLY<\/em><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Published: Saturday, 05 October 2024 at 09:00 AM Pianist Arsha Kaviani reveals his strategies for coping with nervousness and performance anxiety… The performance is not about you… it’s about the music If ever I get nervous, I have a set of thought processes that I go through. 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