world number one pianist

Chapter 214 The first round of the Chopin International Piano Competition

As He Shen's piano selection ended, all the subsequent people also chose their pianos, and after checking with the staff standing at the door three times, they left.

He Shen returned to the hotel where he was staying, but did not continue to practice the piano.

At this time, no matter how much you practice, the effect of practice is not great, basically it is like that.

It is difficult to increase the strength.

Therefore, He Shen just breaks down a little bit of music every day to keep himself sensitive to music.

The special training has changed from the original ten hours to running once a day to ensure that his condition will not deteriorate.

He Shen didn't even go to the Chopin Concert Hall in Warsaw to take a look before choosing the piano and going to He Shen's performance.

After all, looking at these things, it is impossible to increase the slightest competitiveness for yourself, it may only make you nervous.

but……

During He Shen's piano practice, he heard a lot of foreigners around him, and he didn't know if it was the players or the staff.

These people are discussing the players of the previous few days, discussing the more competitive players.

Aimi Kobayashi from Japan deserves to be the finalist of the last year. She is very strong. She may have seemed a little childish before, but now she has become very mature.

And like Aimi Kobayashi, Kyohei Soda from Japan also showed his unique sense of performance in the preliminary round.

That kind of sweet feeling like candied fruit!

Let this sweetness wrap everything around, and let the sorrow and unspeakable grief in Chopin's music be wrapped by this sweetness.

There were some other contestants, but He Shen didn't pay much attention to them, so he didn't pay much attention to them.

All in all, those players who performed well in the qualifiers still performed very well in this round of competition.

The players who were thought to be hiding their moves in the qualifiers before, performed so-so in the main match, and did not become more outstanding.

He Shen didn't have any other views on this. No matter how well these people played, it had nothing to do with him.

Soon, the time came to seven o'clock in the afternoon on the thirteenth...

In the piano room, He Shen moved his hands a little, and then slowly exhaled a foul breath.

Dan Yi, who was sitting on the side, looked at He Shen and asked indifferently.

"How is it? Are your fingers moving?"

"Um……"

He Shen nodded, got up from the piano bench, went to the side, put on the performance costume, picked up the hand towel that Ji Mengting and those two unlucky children gave him before, and put it in his pocket inside.

"The activity has already started, and there should be no problem with the next performance."

"This is good..." Danyi looked at He Shen, rummaged through his pocket, found a hand warmer, and handed it to He Shen.

"Although it is not particularly recommended to use hot water, hand warmers and the like before the game, using these things may relax your hand muscles, but if you are too tense, you might as well just use it."

"it is good."

He Shen nodded, reached out to take the hand warmer in Danyi's hand, put it together with the hand towel Ji Mengting gave him, and put it in the small pocket inside the costume.

That is, a pocket on the chest.

After He Shen put these two gadgets in his pocket, he nodded slightly at Danyi, looked at the door of the piano room, and gestured.

"go?"

"Let's go."

Dan Yi followed behind He Shen, with his hands behind his back, followed slowly, and followed him towards the concert hall.

This time, the Organizing Committee of the Chopin International Piano Competition did not organize the same format as the opening ceremony on the first day, allowing these contestants to show themselves in front of outsiders.

Therefore, outside the concert hall, except for some people who have booked tickets for the evening, there is no one else.

The prosperity of the opening ceremony of the Chopin International Piano Competition before was like a passing cloud, leaving no trace at all.

He Shen stood in the distance, looking at the slightly calm concert hall, without any change on his face.

This situation is actually quite normal, even if it were someone else, they would probably choose this way.

In the opening ceremony of the Chopin International Piano Competition, the performers who appeared were basically all the champions of the Chopin International Piano Competition in the past, and some No.2.

In other words, during the opening ceremony, basically all those who can perform are master-level characters!

However, now that the competition has started, in terms of the Olympic Games, this is actually a very, very ordinary preliminary competition.

Although the competition was very exciting, for those people, no matter how exciting it was, it was definitely not as exciting as the final.

Therefore, except for those fans who particularly like a certain player, not many people will choose this game at this time.

Not to mention, this competition lasted until the early hours of the morning...

He Shen glanced around, didn't stop at the door, and walked directly into the concert hall, handed his identity certificate to the staff standing at the door, and nodded slightly to them.

"Hua Guo, He Shen."

The staff took He Shen's ID, took a quick look, and after confirming that there was no problem, nodded slightly and bowed.

"Okay, the player channel is here, please come with me!"

After that, he got up, stretched out his hand to He Shen, and pointed to another door, a door leading to the player's passage.

When He Shen followed the staff and was about to enter the door, he suddenly felt something and turned his head abruptly.

Danyi still stood there, with his hands behind his back, looking at him with a smile.

When Dan Yi saw He Shen turned his head, he nodded gently to He Shen and said with his mouth.

"come on!"

"..."

He Shen looked at Danyi, but didn't answer. After a while, he bowed very hard to Danyi.

Just bowed, He Shen didn't say a word, and didn't wait for Dan Yi to say anything, he turned around and followed the staff to the backstage of the contestants.

Between him and Danyi, there is not much dialogue required, only a very simple look in the eyes is enough.

This is the tacit understanding they have developed through continuous learning for so long.

This tacit understanding has become stronger and stronger between the two of them.

It can even be said that between He Shen and Dan Yi, there is no need to use language at all during class, maybe with just a pat on the table, He Shen can probably understand Dan Yi's thoughts.

This is the tacit understanding between them!

He Shen followed the staff and walked slowly to the backstage.

The staff just sent it to the backstage, walked down the hall, opened the door, bowed slightly to He Shen, and said.

"Here is the deepest place I can enter. The staff inside will lead you along the next road. If you have any questions, you can ask the staff inside."

After finishing speaking, he bowed his head slightly and remained silent.

He Shen glanced at the staff, walked directly into the gate without saying a word.

The staff inside the gate saw He Shen coming in, and immediately took a few steps forward, guiding He Shen to the backstage lounge of the contestants.

The backstage lounge of the players in the Chopin International Piano Competition is different from those in China.

There are only two backstage lounges for the players of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

A room for everyone to stay in and have a good rest.

In another room, let the contestant who is about to go on stage take a rest there and let him be alone.

The overall sequence is roughly that the first player comes on stage, the second player rests in a separate lounge, and the others wait in the common lounge.

He Shen just walked into the backstage of the concert hall, and he couldn't help being a little stunned.

At this moment, in the backstage, not only the players, but also many, many...cameras and photographers?
All kinds of lenses, and even that kind of radio microphone, just like when I was shooting commercials before, it looks extremely professional.

Because the game has not yet started, these people are just holding the cameras in their hands, chatting casually, and no one pays attention to He Shen.

"Hey, this way!"

The staff leading the way suddenly realized that He Shen hadn't moved, and immediately stepped back a few steps, patted He Shen who was standing there, and whispered to him.

"He, we should go to the player lounge now."

"okay."

He Shen let his gaze away from these cameras, turned and walked towards the player lounge.

At this time, He Shen really realized what an international level competition is.

In the past, no matter whether it was a national level competition or a college league, none of these domestic competitions in China had such a lineup.

The camera follows all the way.

There is more than one staff member serving around.

He Shen just took a cursory glance, there are at least seven or eight staff members scattered around, ensuring that the best service can be provided to all the performers.

At the very least, players like them can be allowed to avoid problems and find no one.

The same is true for these cameras. They surround each player with cameras, and show the performance of these players backstage one by one for everyone outside to see.

At this time, players like them are needed. When waiting for the stage, they need to see themselves as a pianist, not as a student.

When they stand on this stage, they are already a pianist, not an ordinary student or a teacher.

They must always pay attention to their own image and ensure their demeanor!
Is this the first step for all pianists to enter the world from this place?

This is probably why, this competition can be one of the four major piano competitions in the World Music Competition Federation, and it is the first step to become a pianist's pedal!
He Shen was in a daze for a moment.

But soon, He Shen's gaze became extremely firm again, and he followed the staff into the players' lounge.

The lounge is huge, like a meeting room.

The chairs in this lounge are all small back chairs full of European style, and old European style back chairs with red cushions in the middle.

At this moment, many contestants had gathered in the backstage of the concert hall. They were all sitting there, and few of them were willing to chat at this moment.

After all, when they stepped into this place, they had already become enemies with each other.

All they have to do is to make their own level of strength extremely powerful, and then eliminate all their enemies from this competition.

Champion, only one person!

When He Shen opened the door, although no one made any movement, all of them showed a trace of fear in their eyes.

During the preliminaries, he entered the main match with the No.4 score.

Moreover, the difference from the results of the previous few people is not far, only a few tenths of a point, and they are very, very close to each other.

This person's strength is very strong, and he is a very, very terrifying opponent!
Everyone looked at He Shen, their eyes gradually changed from fear to hesitation.

They began to hesitate, thinking that if they chose He Shen as their opponent, did they overestimate themselves too much?

Unfortunately, there is only one champion in the competition!
No matter how much they don't want to face He Shen head-on, they still need to beat He Shen in order to win the final championship.

He Shen glanced at the people around him, without any fluctuation in his gaze.

No matter how much these people dislike him or fear him, he doesn't care.

After all, his goal is to be the champion, and he will defeat all of these people.

Therefore, no matter what these people think of him, whether it is hostile, friendly, or neutral, it doesn't matter how deep it is.

He has only one goal, and that is the championship.

The atmosphere in the room gradually became gloomy. When the other contestants saw He Shen coming, none of them dared to speak again.

He Shen just sat there so simply, and gave them a very, very heavy pressure. This pressure was transmitted from He Shen's body to their hands.

Some people suddenly realized with a little horror that their hands were shaking?

In the last few minutes before the start of the game, your hands began to tremble?
This is not a good sign, if you don't handle it well, this trembling hand will be impressed by what you will do with music in the future, then it will be over!

Everyone looked at He Shen, and their expressions became extremely complicated for a moment, and they didn't know what to say at all.

Could it be that they are going to talk to He Shen now, let He Shen go out for a while, are they afraid?
Leaving aside whether He Shen will go out or not, if he said so, the anger among them would be cut short.

And for this short half, don't even think about winning the championship. If you can survive this round, you will be considered a success.

After all, every round of the competition is to eliminate half of the people!
80 into 40, 40 into 20, 20 into 10, and the final 10 people will select the top six.

If you feel that none of the top ten players is worthy of the top six, the Chopin Organizing Committee can be completely vacant, so that it will be vacant for the whole year.

I would rather be vacant than give this ranking to everyone present.

This, the Chopin International Piano Competition.

The most cruel, the world's top piano competition.

Everyone looked at He Shen, and the atmosphere became more and more depressing. The little girl sitting next to He Shen had already started to wobble.

tension, stress...

All kinds of emotions were accumulated on the little girl next to He Shen, so that she didn't even dare to look at He Shen, just holding her hands like this, trembling all over.

Some other people around looked at this little girl and wanted to say something, but they didn't dare to say anything. They could only look at He Shen. In this place, they showed an extremely powerful aura, crushing everyone.

Ding……

The clock placed in the lounge, the hour and minute hands, slowly reached the seven o'clock position, and then there was a crisp sound, breaking the tranquility in the lounge.

On the stage, the host's voice immediately passed through the door of the room to everyone's ears.

After briefly introducing the identity of the host himself, he has already introduced the judges present today to everyone.

The lineup of judges is very strong, except for Chen Sa, everyone else came today.

For example, Deng Songshan and Argerich.

These people all came to stay up late to watch the game and conduct the selection of the game.

Snapped……

The door of the lounge was pushed open by the staff.

A staff member held a tablet in his hand and spoke to everyone.

"On the 13th, at 9:[-] p.m., the No. [-] contestant prepares and goes on stage, and the No. [-] contestant enters the lounge to wait."

The voice fell, and the two players got up.

The trembling little girl sitting next to He Shen stood up from the stool, walked up to the staff, and spoke calmly.

"No. [-] Contestant, Bear Country Anastasia Yasko"

The staff glanced at the two people standing in front, this little girl and another girl with an East Asian face, then nodded silently, took over the identity certificates of both of them, and checked them one by one. nod.

"Okay, I've checked it successfully. Contestant No. [-] can go on stage later. Contestant No. [-], please go to the lounge in front to wait. We will notify you after the performance of No. [-] Contestant."

"Okay, okay..."

Anastasia Yasko lowered her head and agreed honestly.

He Shen frowned and looked at the girl, especially when she looked down and looked very nervous, he couldn't help but speak.

"Relax."

"what?"

Anastasia Yasko froze for a moment, turned her head and looked around, and found that the Great Demon King He Shen was talking to her, and took a small half step back in fear for a while, saying in fear.

"Why, what's the matter? This, this..."

She looked around at the crowd, struggled for a long time, and finally choked out a word.

"This player?"

He Shen ignored her fear, but pointed directly at her body and said casually.

"You're too nervous, you won't make a very good impression on everyone if you just come on stage, so relax!"

"Huh? Okay... okay?"

Anastasia Yasko didn't know why He Shen said this to her, but she nodded obediently.

"Contestant No. [-], come to the waiting room!"

The staff's voice came again, which made her collapse immediately in fright, quickly bowed slightly to He Shen, and then ran towards the lounge.

Seeing the behavior of this player named "Anastasia Yasko", He Shen couldn't help shaking his head slightly.

Although he didn't bother to pay attention to other people, he didn't want to save him.

However, he reminded that he has done his best.

This player is dead!

　Anastasia Yasko Passers-by, don't need to remember the name, just take a look.

　　Turn around and she'll be gone
　　
　
(End of this chapter)