November 12, 2004 at 1:30 AM

It is 10 am here in Tongyeong and by now I have already practiced over 2 hours. I started my day out with some old fashioned scales. The teacher I had for the first 8 years would let me start every lesson with scales (a la flesch) and many different bowings. Then some arpeggios (with tuning machine) and some broken thirds and chromatic scales. It felt really good and got me into almost a meditative state. After that I worked two hours on Bach, cleaning it, playing it slowly, deciding what kind of extra's I want in it (I used to play the first time clean, as written and then in the repeats I would add all this little stuff, however they do not want to hear repeats in this competition and therefor I had to get my interpretation a little bit altered) and to top it off I played through the entire Partita and recorded it.
It is gorcious weather outside and I will now go to the beach and listen to the recording. Tonight I will run the entire first round for my roommate and she for me, so that's a nice way of getting the whole thing together.
I feel good. After my initial shock of what the competition world is like, I decided I needed to take lots of rest, keep myself quite and just do my job and enjoy. After not having been at school or in a bigger group of musicians for the past year, it was a real shock.
I am really glad I came. My violinplaying has really improved through the preparations and it is an incredible experience to be in Korea for the first time.
I hope to maybe visit a temple this afternoon, but first I have about 4 more hours of practicing to do.
Keep you fingers crossed for me for the drawing of the lots tomorrow morning. I would rather not be first... :)
See you tomorrow!

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November 12, 2004 at 1:30 AM

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