It is important for musicians to be able to adapt to our current fast-ever changing era of the world. Many of great musicians living in year 2024 are unfortunately facing lack of job opportunities constantly and living with fear of losing their jobs due to the governments around the world cutting fundings to arts and cultural sector. Hence, I believe that it is important for us musicians to be able to adapt and diversify our expertise in many areas as much as possible. The more diverse skillsets musicians have, the society will also naturally accept that a musician doesn’t necessarily need to be labelled as one professional but accepting them to have different multiple profession as well. In order to become and to sustain the highest quality of excellence of being the world-class musician, requires an endless dedicated hours of practice for years, if not for decades. Even so, it still feels not enough in one lifetime to truly feel that we have mastered it.

Since I have decided to be a musician at aged 11, my environments have changed constantly which allowed me to learn diverse cultures of different people living in various countries. I have learnt that the level of excellence in musicians differ greatly depending on different countries. Then, I have also learnt that it all depended on the education, the interest (expectations) from the public to musicians and governments who can support by providing necessary programs for musicians, that were the crucial factors in these different countries that may have ultimately caused the differences in the level of excellence from the musicians living in certain countries.

In my thesis, I will be talking about my musical journey, how I was able to get to/from and managing my career as both being both 100% pianist and 100% orchestral conductor during my constant changes of the environment (countries).