Nice

Darren Arnofsky's found the soundtrack to his next film.

Viktoriya Yermolyeva was born in Kiev in 1978. She graduated with honours from Kiev Lysenko Specialized Music High School (1996), piano class of Prof. Iryna Lipatova and National P. Tchaikovsky Music Academy of the Ukraine (2000), piano class of Prof. Igor Ryabov.
She studied in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar (D), postgraduate course with Prof. Peter Waas and simultaneously in the years 2001-2003, studied in the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola (I) with Prof. Lazar Berman.

She won prizes in many piano competitions, among others:
1st Prize at “Filippo Trevisan” International for Piano Interpretation (I).
Winner of The Grachtenfestival 2005 Amsterdam
1st Prize at 35th International Competition “”Vincenzo Bellini”(I)
1st Prize at 20th International Piano Competition “Citta di Marsala” (I)
1st Prize at International Piano Competition “Citta’ Di Trani” (I).
1st Prize at 4th Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Prize (I).
Grand Prix at 9th Pierre Lantier International Music Competition in duet with V.Dmitriev (flute) (Fr).

That was simply amazing. It sent chills down my spine.

Holy crap, so full of energy i got palm sweat by just looking at that performance. Awesome

Beating the fuck out of the keyboard. I love it.

This was one of those videos where I thought 'I don't really feel like wacthing this, but I'll take a look anyway' - Glad I did.

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What's the counter in the background?

^ Looks like a clock.

Thank you SO much for not falling in to the trap of labeling her a "cute girl" playing piano like most music vids with a female musician! Upvote just for that!

A bunch of people had accused her of playing slowly and then speeding up the film to make it look fast and impressive. She seemed somewhat confused and shocked that she should have to prove herself. she has one Youtube video which has her showing how she actually plays that fast and then started including the clock in videos as proof.

"Speeding Up" Response

>> ^garmachi:
What's the counter in the background?


The counter is there to ensure no one claims that she performed the piece at, say, half-speed and then doubled the speed of the video. She performed a song of that complexity at its original pacing. Impressive stuff.

[edit] Nice performance.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Darren Arnofsky's found the soundtrack to his next film.


This is going to be the soundtrack for the Robocop remake?

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I'm inclined to believe her, but I could easily program a digital clock displayed on a computer that would move at half speed so that someone could then double the speed of the video to make the clock appear to be running at normal time.

There's really no way to guarantee it's real time. But I guess the clock would be good enough for the dummies on youtube.

Personally I look for motion blur, but that could be faked too if someone was smart enough to figure out how to do it. But I've never seen it done.

She would have to play not only at half speed, but at a lower octave, wouldn't she? So that when she sped it up, it would play at the correct octave? Otherwise wouldn't it be very high pitched?

If she played on an acoustic piano, that would shut them up for sure.

I'm not sure why, but the best thing I've heard in a long time is "I can not show you my shadow 'cause it's morning, but it moves fast too."
>> ^Sagemind:
"Speeding Up" Response

>> ^KnivesOut:
If she played on an acoustic piano, that would shut them up for sure.
Or spoke, even.



Once someone's got the skepticism, few things will be considered convincing evidence.
"Oh, the clock can be programmed to tick slowly. The fingers don't blur right. She doesn't speak. She only plays on electric keyboards. Her hair moves unnaturally. Look at the way her boobs bounce. Mmm...boobies."

With 280 videos of her playing different songs on her YT site - I doubt anyone would take the time to fake so many videos - Not to mention taking the time to learn the key strokes to that many songs just to fake us out - it would be easier to just play the songs for real!

And with her credentials, I can't see her being a fake - So lets get past it... !
http://www.yermolyeva.com/

Bravo *femme!

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