“Music has been my entire life,” says Trinity Goff, who began piano lessons at age 3 and gave her first performance a year later.
But for Goff, the 6th NTD International Piano Competition was in many ways a pleasant change of pace.
One noteworthy feature of the competition is its focus on repertoire before 1900, and the other is the requirement to play a specially commissioned work that pianists have only 45 days to prepare for.
Though Goff plays music from all eras, the focus on pre-Impressionist era music only meant a focus on music that never had to be “brought back down to earth,” music that was never meant to contend with any ugly reality….