Wen Shiyu suppressed her excitement and greeted Hathaway.
Especially when she learnt that Hathaway was the one who had offered to meet her, she was almost knocked out by the surprise.
She had never thought that she would have such a great opportunity.
After the introduction, Pei Shixi sat aside with the head of the group, giving the main stage to Wen Shiyu and Hathaway.
“Listening to you play last night, I noticed that you have a very solid foundation and are very sophisticated when it comes to transposing, you should have practiced a lot in your spare time, right?”
Hathaway, who looked like a noblewoman, folded her hands and put them down gracefully on her knees.
Her gaze was amiable as she surveyed Wen Shiyu.
Wen Shiyu was aware of this, and although she was nervous inside, her every move was still generous and una*suming, “I regularly allow myself to practice my piano skills for two hours every day.”
Hathaway nodded and asked some more questions about music.
Wen Shiyu was able to answer each one, sometimes with some of her unique understandings attached.
“You have a great knowledge of the concept, I wonder if you would like to play a Canon live?”
The Canon is not a specific piece, but a musical score technique that can be played differently by different people.
A further point is that although all the voices in the Canon are imitating one voice, the different heights of the voices enter at certain intervals, creating a kind of rising and falling, continuous effect.
To sum up, this is a piece that is a great test of technique.
On hearing this, Wen Shiyu was of course fine with it.
She knew that this was the test Hathaway had given her.
At that moment, she took out her own violin and after tuning the tone, she began to play.
The low and light sound of the violin rang out, sometimes cheerful, sometimes lingering, and like the melting of water in winter, everything revived and full of life.
At the end of the song, Wen Shiyu took a deep breath and looked at Hathaway expectantly, “What did senior think?”
“It was very well played.” Hathaway did not mince her words in the slightest, her eyes full of appreciation for Wen Shiyu.
But at the same time, a doubt rose in her heart, “Miss Wen, according to reason, at your age you should have advanced your studies long ago, and with your talent, your achievement should not be as high as it is now, you should totally have a better development, if I may, I would like to know, for what reason you have been delayed until now.”
Wen Shiyu did not expect Hathaway to point out her problems in development so to the point.
Having no choice, she could only give a brief account of her family situation, “…… that’s pretty much it.”
Hathaway frowned and said with some disapproval, “So you’ve been held back by family factors until now.”
“Yes.” Wen Shiyu nodded her head.
Hathaway saw this and a little thought crossed her eyes.
“I see.”
She nodded and asked some other questions, but never explicitly said whether she wanted to take Wen Shiyu or not.
When she left the Berlin orchestra, Wen Shiyu was in a very apprehensive mood.
Looking at the nervous and anxious Wen Shiyu, Pei Shixi comforted her, “You don’t have to worry too much, Ms Hathaway didn’t explicitly reject it, so your chances should still be high.”
Knowing that Bae Shi Hee was comforting herself, Wen Shiyu nodded and smiled, not saying anything.
In fact, she didn’t have much hope of becoming Hathaway’s student.
Although she hadn’t talked to Hathaway much, she could still perceive from Hathaway’s mere words that this was a senior who didn’t like trouble.
Then again, there are so many talented people in this world, and she is not the one who particularly stands out, so how could she have been chosen?
She had always had very bad luck, so how could she suddenly be favoured.
Xu saw some of Wen Shiyu’s thoughts, Pei Shixi once again encouraged, “You should believe in yourself, you’re actually not inferior to anyone, including me.”
Wen Shiyu was a little surprised, she did not expect Pei Shixi to have such a high opinion of her.
After a moment of bewilderment, a light-hearted smile lifted up on her face, “Mr. Bae is right, I shouldn’t be so presumptuous, well, that’s all for now, Mr. Bae hurry back to discuss music with the seniors, today is a rare opportunity.”