"Once a pianist, always a pianist." | Juliana Han's path from Harvard Law to Juilliard and beyond
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2021
- Juliana Han can't seem to shake being a pianist.
Ever since childhood music has been running as a soundtrack in her head. Perhaps that's why she keeps finding her way back to music. After spending a decade pursuing science and law at Harvard, working as a business strategist, and landing a promising position as a corporate associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, she ultimately left the law firm to return to school: music school. She went on to earn both her master's and doctorates at Juilliard, before getting hired as a professor of piano at Augustana College.
While Juliana has since turned back to Law - now working as an in-house legal advisor to Amazon Web Services educational programs - she was and will always be a pianist.
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THIS IS ME! I grew up as a pre-professional pianist, quit after too much emotional pressure from my parents and teacher. But haven't been able to shake it over the years-always wondered if I should go back to it. I never did and am now in a different career. BUT I recently bought a piano myself and have been falling in love in a completely new way now. Piano is love. Piano is life.
This is really inspiring to hear how you returned to piano. So often, it's been touted that you have to start early and stick with it forever to make anything out of it. Thanks for sharing your story, Juliana.
Thank you everyone, glad to know I'm not alone 😊 I'm a patent lawyer/chemist, and just before the 2nd hard lockdown in the Philippines, I bought a piano and returned to playing piano as much as I used to as a kid 😊
Sometimes I feel I missed a lot of playing time all those years, and sometimes I feel I need to catch up. But it's a comfort that not all pianists have the same straight path that I didn't have ☺️
But there's always the circus nature to pianism. Limit's the imagination gets old.
@@dalethomasdewitt Ah, but our life experiences help us to understand much more how EACH NOTE fit with the other to reach a living whole !??
music mirrors life and stretches it more than imagination into realms of experiences that is more than what the spirit has visited... stay with it. It is more than love. It will teach you how to love and share love ...even in lonely, complicated but as if blessed by the divine life...like Johannes Brahms !
I'm a Japanese and play the piano myself everyday. I learned the piano by myself and have been playing it for 40 years now. I'm not as good as you're, of course. I went to a state university, majoring Econ, and I've worked at several US tech giant companies. But playing the piano is a big part of my life, which I sometimes feel a little alone and isolated when I'm at work, feeling like my co-workers are totally in a different world who don't even know what Chopin's Mazurkas or impromptus are. On Mondays, they would ask me what I was doing on weekends, and I want to tell them that I was practicing Brahms' Intermezzo, Op. 118-2, but I can never say it. Not that I was hiding this fact nor feeling shame, but I know saying it would make them feel awkward or uncomfortable, so I made it a rule to say, "it was good."
You said you decided you didn't want to do it for a career, so you went to a normal college and had normal jobs after that... Harvard is a "normal" college for you?! Lawyer is a normal job for you?! You really are a genius! Even if we made every effort, only selected people can go to Harvard and become a lawyer.
You reminded me of Ryu Goto, brother of Midori Goto, a Japanese-American violinist who also went to Harvard, majoring physics. But now a violinist.
Who said, "God doesn't give with both hands" or "God doesn't give two gifts?"
I’m too am in the same boat
Yes, I totally hear you. I am the same. Not that I am any good at piano. But I love trying to learn beautiful pieces and I have no one to talk to about it.
Very Important message for pianist (including not professionals). There are so many ways to in music like people on this world. Many of us forgot this on our way to achieve something, like mastering a piano piece!
Child pianist, wife, mother retired,
PIANIST 🎹😊..
enjoyed very much your video!
Thank you for words of wisdom
The love for it never leaves you!! I just started my first legal job and I want to go to conservatory for viola!
Most wonderful life experience.Whst a wise and communicative lady! This would be a very helpful exposition of the real world and would be ideal to be heard
Great testimony, thank you!
The Musette was my first piano piece as a kid...) Nobody talked about multitasking then. Yes, it is not possible to multitask. The focus is always somewhere. Ideally it is in the expressiveness of the music. Body, arms, hands follow along. Mastering the piano for me is to be able to forget fingering and hand movements. Concentration is in the music itself, in its microscopic details and in the grand picture as a whole. And possibly, all becomes totally effortless even with the fastest tempi.
What a fascinating lady. That's the problem with piano... it always draws you back in
It does not. I know tons of people who started and then dropped it forever. If you do go back, though, like I did, there are usually very good reasons.
@@tomlabooks3263 not true. It always draws you back. Even when you think about it and never play again, you are still thinking about piano and how it affected you.
@@famousatmidnight15 Great! We disagree, and that’s cool.
It's amazing to think that this your start came from the opportunity provided by a local government school. It clearly has had an amazing effect on your life and, along with your hard work, dedication and the guidance you've received, your career path(s) have been rich and varied. In Australia we have seen reductions in public school funding that will ultimately lead to people leading less fuller lives and also less productive ones.
However, I hope you enjoy the rest of the journey!
I died at “once a pianist, always a pianist” ❤
Her performance of the Rachmaninoff Op. 23 No. 4 prelude is wonderful. I've heard her do it live. A fine all-around musician.
Thank you for sharing your story!
i have a friend who majored in piano performance and applied to a bunch of law schools, very cool!
Thank goodness you have become a performing pianist!! Beautiful Chopin….
That's my old professor!! Love her
Smile...on "a scale" of one to a hundred, I might not even be a one, however, I enjoyed this so much. That being said, I heard someone say one time: "Those who see God is in some things probably will eventually see God in everything! May God bless you and your family today, always and all ways!!
Respects!!!
Sweet. Chaego!!
My favourite Rachmaninoff prelude at the start!
100% agree!!!
Although I doubt the majority case resembles hers, where her many prestigious careers include one as a respected classical pianist, I do agree that the piano has a way of reappearing as a factor in one's life. I find in my case, even though my three Bs are now Billy Joel, Billy Ocean and Billy Preston, the piano remains part of my life-long pursuit of music as an indispensable creative outlet while working professionally in other areas.
Don’t forget..you are reading “” code ” when you read music..
I identify with her so much!!
Very interesting content.
what a beautiful story. I will she apply that scientific method to understand why pianists even with alot of experience (i.e. me) still fall like a house of cards when it comes to sight reading!!!
I once worked for some months at Cravath Swaine & Moore as part of their in-house translation team (beginning on Sep. 10, 2001--CS&M client Deutsche Telekom was being sued at the time by disgruntled investors). I also hold two degrees from Juilliard, where my instructor for the four years I was there was none other than Earl Wild.
Trying to play “Musette” now as a beginner. I feel like a centipede trying to figure out which foot to move first.
Yeah ok she’s brilliant. We get it!
why second guess brilliant peoples' motives? glean what you will, show appreciation (optional), move on. anything else is considered 'littering'.
Am in the same boat 😔. I will dedicate my life to compose and play music, but first I must major in chemistry as science is also a passion of mine.
100% agree…I don’t play as much as I should, but it’s been in my life since my mom got pregnant with me and lessons started at 4. I used to think it was so strange when I’d go to my friend’s houses and they didn’t have a piano 😂 And I started with Suzuki too lol
I bet you’ll be a great soprano , just to listen your voice👍👍👍
What is the music she plays at the start?
OMG!!! I am like that ….
That Anna Magdalena piece was a curve ball!
8:50 this is SO WRONG, jumps on both hand can be seen as one movement ("one task"), as well as one passage with one hand can be seen as many movements (multitask ??? not really, rather a more complicated task). If the pianist hesitates are the landing, it's because the movement is not known fully ! And indeed one can have the same hesitation with one hand or even one finger. Rather one can see a certain movement as an combination of several movements, eg octavas in Mazeppa, and indeed one need to coordinate both octava scales and jumps; in Harmonies du soir or Chasse neige, or Mazeppa (other parts), chords jumps with two hand can easily be felt as one movement.
Those scratches on a Steinway piano make me cry...
I would welcome your thoughts on improving sight reading since I suspect that you are VERY good at it.
I suspect it'll be along the lines of do it very often. Study music lots of music theory.
@@pjbpiano 👌 can’t blame me for looking for magic
Playing a lot is really what's most needed. Bach is probably the best composer to play to get good at sight reading.
@@twopoles11 thanks! The Bach suites I can handle at a slow speed, it’s the chordy Brahms that defeats me. I saw admire people that site read well. It opens up so many doors for them.
@@twopoles11 playing Bach will only get you good at reading Bach. Different types of composers require different approaches.
Goodness isn't that so typical of Asian families!!! Pianist self taught some conservatory student taught me, did the engineering gig heck is easier than piano for a living, continued piano studies with professors still playing once retired. Btw funny I'm doing that Rachmanioff prelude, also. Fate. Continue on musicians of all types it's our therapy.
And pondered at all conservatories
Your D sounds marvelous...!
In the membership does not sound
“Normal college” as in Harvard hahaha?
I would love to have you waste your time improving my piano skills. You wouldn’t be wasting my time, only yours.
Huh?
“Once a pianist always a pianist” omg stfu ur so cute
.... i wonder what is the practical use of this lecture, there is nothing wrong, but also there is nothing concrete.....
It was a pity ( I am guessing , am I right?) that you never learned to dance (waltz?) and enjoy it with a partner in the same way you enjoyed the finest moments of your chamber music playing... where your obviously very fine brain abandons to awareness of space ( between the notes in music...rubato..etc) in the room with your partner and soaring in the enjoyment of being one with your partner... to my mind becoming like starlings in their murmuring, fish in their shoal composite movement fitting in with flight of mythic big birds like 鵬 in Taoist writings...or the rise of the phoenix from the ashes like the way you have described your life here. By the way, do you know how Amazon treat delivery staff like robots 🤖 in time schedules ? quite opposite to any educational principles that goes beyond just learning and nurtures the human spirit... another flight ✈️ from the rich pile of ashes this time ? I wish you : Good searching and wonderful wriggling in your LIFE-Dance !
tldw; Money talks. now an amazon lawyer
I guess that is fair enough, but I don't see how that gives her 'greater artistic freedom'. Furthermore, lawyers notoriously work unsocial hours, so that might not necessarily improve her family life, either.
Yeah, what a sad ending. I mean if she wants to be a lawyer, all power to her, but to go on about the importance of music and punctuate that with “I’m a lawyer for the Bezos enterprise” is a little unsavory.