4-4 Accompanistor

For those who are professionally trained as pianist, they can be classified as solo pianist or career accompanist. A solo pianist needs to have very unique and personal style whereas a great accompanist needs to have good quality of collaboration and thus he or she can play in harmony with the solo-musician.

• High level piano skills and music flexibilities

A great professional accompanist needs to be capable of modifying himself or herself as if he or she wears a multi-layer masks so as to collaborate with the solo-musician’s unique music styles. Strong and distinguished personal style is not necessary for a professional accompanist because it will be a disadvantage for his or her career. Based on the description above, we can clearly see the differences between a solo-musician and a professional accompanist. For a musician with great music performing proficiency, if he or she cannot cooperate with other musicians, and then he or she may not be able to be a qualified accompanist.

• Sufficient music content knowledge

Adding up to the ability to collaborate with other music performers, a professional accompanist needs to know the differences among all kinds of music instruments. Since the features of each music instrument is not identical, a professional accompanist has to be capable of helping each different solo-musician shows out his or her special instrument features and unique music styles as well as enabling them to have smooth performances. In short, a professional accompanist must perfectly match with the solo-musician in order to produce a wonderful music work.