"Congratulations, Fu!" Arcade raised his glass to Fu Tune, his eyes were calm, and there was no trace of anger or resentment at Fu Tune for winning his Newcomer of the Year of the Year, "You played great." ”

Fu Tiao looked at him, a little surprised for a while, and then also raised the wine glass in his hand, raised it slightly at him, and smiled in return.

"Thank you, Mr. Valodos!"

Arkady Valodos, this is Arcadi's full name.

Although Arcades told him that he liked Fu Tune's performance and congratulated him on winning the Best of the Year award at this year's Ruhr Piano Festival, this was not a reason for Fu to disrespect the man in front of him.

Even though it has been almost three months since Arcades played, his interpretation of music still leaves a deep impression on his heart.

It is even said that without Arcade's performance, without the god-level scene that Arcade showed him, it would be impossible for Fu Tuo to play the so-called god-level scene.

Fu Tiao looked at Arcade's face, couldn't help but smile, and said to Arcade.

"Mr. Valodos, thank you for that night, you opened my mind and train of thought about music, and for the first time I felt that music can be played in this way, not just for individuals to show their thoughts about music musically, but from the audience, the venue, and all other directions to achieve perfection, turning music into a live interactive experience, not just simple, like a music player playing."

"Wow, Fu, music player? If you say that about yourself, how many others do you think others will be ashamed to death? Successfully won the music player of the best newcomer at this year's Ruhr Piano Festival, the music player who played the god-level live scene, and the music player who won the championship of the Chopin International Piano Competition? Haha, I would also like to be such a music player if I could. ”

Arcade couldn't help grinning when he heard this, reached out and patted Fu Tune's shoulder, and then gestured into the distance with his hand holding the wine glass, and joked at Fu Tune.

"So, Mr. Great Music Player, can you walk with me over there?"

"Of course, there are no problems, Mr. Valodos!"

Fu Tiao nodded, and said with the same smile.

After getting rid of the complicated negotiations in the backstage of the concert hall, the two of them staggered to the backstage of the music.

Here, although there are still some staff members setting up the stage, it is quiet enough compared to the previous place, everyone is putting the finishing touches on the stage, and no one cares about Fu Diao and Arkady Valodos who are standing in the background.

Arcades glanced at the silence around him, let out a long sigh, casually put the wine glass aside, and then loosened the tie locked around his neck, and smiled at Fu Tea.

"Fu, don't be so nervous, just find a quiet place to chat, I won't be jealous that you won the position of this year's best newcomer of the year, and I won't eat you because of this incident, don't be nervous."

"I know, after all, my weight is not light, and you shouldn't be able to eat me in one meal."

Fu Tiao also responded with a smile, and then put the wine glass in his hand aside, but he didn't loosen the tie on his neckline like Arcade.

After all, Arcade just sat under the stage and didn't do anything, and if he remembered correctly, he was going to go on stage to accept the award, and this tie was finally sorted out by him.

However, after getting the tie, he was a little regretful, he knew that he didn't need a tie, but a bow tie, and he felt that the bow tie was convenient, and the tie seemed that he was too mature, and it didn't particularly match his face.

"Every time I see your face and think about what you have accomplished at the Classical Music Festival, I always feel an indescribable sense of disobedience, and I can't imagine that such a performance could appear in such a young person."

Arcades felt the same way, he looked at Fu Tune with an emotional expression and sighed.

"Looking at you, I really feel that I am old, and those who are the same age as me are also old, although I have been almost twenty years since I became famous, I still remember that when my first album was released, I became the new favorite of students in New York and even the entire American conservatory of music, and all of them were proud to have a copy of my album."

"Nine years...... I just seemed to have just been born? Fu Tiao groped his chin and joked.

"Yes, it may be at the age when you were just born, but I have been improving in the past few years, but I didn't expect these years of hard work, I haven't been able to beat your efforts in the past few years, sometimes I really wonder if you are the rebirth of a bigwig-level pianist."

"For example, Lang Liangyue? He always said that he was the reincarnation of the pianist Horowitz. ”

"That's right! For example, Lang Liangyue! No, it seems that there is another person, also a ...... in your country."

"Li Diyun?"

"Yes, yes, Li Diyun, yes, it's him, your memory is so good, hahahaha!"

Arcades immediately laughed when he heard this, and said approvingly to Fu Tiao: "Yes, just like them, I feel that compared to Horowitz reincarnated in their bodies, I feel that Horowitz talked to God for a while on the way to reincarnation, and after a moment's delay, it is more reasonable to be reincarnated in you." ”

"It's like a legend in Huaguo, when I drank Meng Po soup on Huangquan Road, I looked at Meng Po and chatted for a while?"

"Well, although I don't know much about the legends of death in your country, I feel that there is no difference between you and what I said."

Arcades smiled, looked at the staff around him who were trying to move bricks, shook his head, took a deep breath, and sighed.

"But looking at all this, it's really emotional, obviously I worked hard for so long, but in the end I didn't get anything, but it all fell on you, the best of the year at the Ruhr Piano Festival, this position is not as simple as ordinary people think, you have to be careful in the future."

"Careful? Why? ”

"It's nothing, it's just that this honor brings not only honor, but also a requirement, you are not an old man like me, you are a young man, Fu, think back to the people who also won the Ruhr Piano Festival of the Year, who are they?"

"They ......"

Fu Tiao thought about it, suddenly became a little silent, and slowly read:

"Christian Zimmermann, Marta Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Alfred Blundell, Maurizio Pollini, Sir Andras Schiff, Marc Andrei Hamelin, Helena Grimaud, Pierre Boulez, Bella Davidovich, Elizabeth Leonskaya, ......"

From 1998 to 2015, 17 laureates, 17 world top piano masters.

Although it is called the best newcomer of the year, in fact, no one can be called a newcomer, everyone is a master.

Therefore, although it is called Best Newcomer, this award is actually the Best Performer.

This is definitely an award that does not deserve its name.

However, winning this award is enough to be one of the most glorious moments in the life of many pianists.

No, not to be precise, not to receive this award, but ...... Participation in the Ruhr Piano Festival.

Being invited to the Ruhr Piano Festival and successfully participating in it is enough to become an honor that cannot be concealed on many people's resumes.

This is the status of the Ruhr Piano Festival in the world, and this is also the status of the Ruhr Piano Festival's best newcomer of the year in the world.

Although it may not be particularly accurate, you can definitely take this as the Spring Festival Gala in the piano world, or an award.

This award is not promoted much in China, probably the main reason is that there are relatively few Chinese pianists participating in this festival, or ...... Almost completely none.

That is, people like Lang Liangyue can be invited to the Ruhr Piano Festival.

But why doesn't he write about the Ruhr Piano Festival on his resume?

The reason is that he has participated in other music festivals and won too many awards, and his resume is more about what awards he has won than what he has been invited to participate in, and he has not won this year's Best Newcomer of the Year, so he does not make any publicity.

This award is not yet the kind of cheap prize that is given away for free as long as the top pianists participate.

There are a lot of music awards that deliberately put gold on their faces, saying that their awards were given to whomever and whom.

This award is one of the kinds, even if you are the best and most famous pianist in the world, it will not necessarily be given to you, it still depends on how well you play live.

Lang Liangyue is famous, right? He is almost the strongest pianist of the younger generation.

Kissin is famous, right? A man hailed as a piano genius by the god of conducting.

Not to mention the other pianists, such as the old pianists in Toei, such as the group of Mitsuko Uchida, who were also invited to participate in the Ruhr Piano Festival, but they were still not capable of winning awards.

Now Fu has won the position of Newcomer of the Year, becoming the first Asian pianist in history.

This can be regarded as a cross-generational achievement.

It is not only the glory of China, but also the glory of East Asia and even the whole of Asia.

With such glory and such a young state, Arcade in front of him felt a little uncomfortable in his throat.

He pursed his lips and said hoarsely with emotion.

"Yes, those top pianists, you don't want to compare with us, you shouldn't compare with us, your next goal is to compare with those top pianists, after all, you are the youngest one in the Ruhr Piano Festival, and everyone will no longer compare with those who are the same age as you, such as Zhao Chengzhen, who I was very optimistic about before, and Hamelin, but Zimmerman, Schiff, Argerich, Sokolov, them......

Dior, can I call you that? You have to know that what you need to compare next is not their current state, you need to compare, but their strongest state, their history, and you have to be clear......"

Arcades turned to look at Fu Tiao, and said with an extremely serious expression: "Some people, after they stop playing the piano, they will be completely sent to the altar, even if they are now playing the piano in a ridiculously bad state, such as Sokolov, such as Pollini, but their status is still much higher than yours, this is the golden body cast for them by their historical achievements, you ...... Do you understand? ”

Fu Tiao looked at Arkady's expression, and after being silent for a long time, he nodded slightly.

"I see."

"It's good to understand, no matter what you understand, but I have already said what I can say, it would be good if I could also win this year's best of the year, I still have some historical background to support, even if it is called the worst annual best in recent years by others, I can still accept it, but you can't say it, some people praise must also curse, sometimes you have to learn to accept, come on."

Arcades patted Fu Tuo on the shoulder, picked up the wine glass that was set aside without hesitation, and turned away, continuing to talk to the group of people backstage.

Fu Tuo, on the other hand, was a little silent in place.

The silence stopped until an acquaintance of the organizing committee walked up to him.

The host, director, and general director of the Ruhr Festival, brought Miller to Fu Tune.

Miller stood behind the director and did not speak.

The director smiled at Fu Xuan, put down the wine glass in his hand, and said softly.

"Fu ......"

"Huh?"

Fu Tiao was stunned when he heard the voice, turned his head to look at the director and Miller behind him, couldn't help but open his mouth, and stretched out his hand after a sigh.

"Mr. Director, and Mr. Miller? How did you guys get here? ”

"Of course we are coming, after all, today is the closing ceremony of the Ruhr Piano Festival, if we don't come, how will this closing ceremony end?"

Miller couldn't help but complain behind the director.

The director didn't have any ideas, he just smiled and shook hands with Fu Diao, and shrugged his shoulders slightly.

That's what Miller said, but I guess...... You shouldn't call me a director, I have my own name, Franz Javier Onesog, Director of the Ruhr Piano Festival, President of the Ruhr Piano Festival Foundation, and General Manager of the Ruhr Piano Festival Sponsorship and Service Center, although I don't see you much, to be precise, it should only be when I host your concert, but I think we should call each other by name, not position, after all, you don't want me to call you Mr. Pianist, right? ”

"Of course!" Fu Tiao smiled a little awkwardly after hearing this: "Mr. Onesog, I'm sorry, I haven't had a chance to know your name, I can only call you Mr. Director." ”

"No, that's not the point, and I don't really care about it, after all, many people often don't call me by my name, but Mr. Host, Mr. President, Mr. Manager, not Mr. Oonesog, right, Miller?"

Oonesog and Miller behind him took one look at each other and laughed at the same time.

After everyone laughed for a while, Onesog spoke to Fu Tuo.

"Dior, congratulations, I think you've heard enough today, and we shouldn't need to say more, but I want to ask, I think you should have received an email from the organizing committee, right?"

"Are you talking about the one I won this year's Chopin International Piano Competition?"

Fu Tiao took out his mobile phone, called up the email, and nodded slightly: "Of course I received this email, which informed me that I won the title of this year's Best Newcomer of the Year, what's wrong?" Did you come out of the blue to inform me that my award had been cancelled? ”

"No, no, no, how is that possible?" Oonesog waved his hand repeatedly, "I'm definitely not here to inform you of the cancellation of the award, I'm just here to ask you a few questions before the award." ”

"Questions? What's the problem? ”

"The simple question is, are you interested in doing a few more benefit concerts?"

"Charity...... Concert? Fu Tiao asked a little puzzled, "What is a charity concert?" ”

"Tickets are sold as normal concerts, and all the money from the sale of tickets will go to the Ruhr Piano Festival Foundation as a prize money for next year and the year after, and at the same time, the money will be used to subsidize local classical music education resources to help more young musicians and students understand and learn music."

To put it simply, it is a day job.

Fu Tiao immediately understood Oonesog's intentions.

He looked at Onesog and muttered for a moment, then nodded a little hesitantly.

"Yes, but not this year, after all, you have to know that I have a lot of performances to complete this year, I have to go to the Salzburg Festival in a few days, and I need to do a chamber music with my chamber orchestra members, and after Salzburg, I may go back a little bit to take a break, and there will be some performances at the school in the second half of the year, so ......"

"There's no hurry, just feel free to contact us if you want."

Oonesog waved his hand, not caring about Fu Tiao's answer, but continued to ask: "If you have the opportunity, do you want to bring your chamber music members to the Ruhr area, we have a plan in Dortmund to help children in the war-torn region, this is not just the idea of the Ruhr Piano Festival, there will also be Dortmund and Schalke 04's charity Ruhr derby, if you are interested, I can help you sign up for it." ”

"I need to go back and ask my chamber music friends for their opinions." Fu Tiao did not give an immediate reply.

It's just that Onesog frowned a little, he spread his hands slightly, and said helplessly.

"I hope you will reply to me as soon as possible, preferably tonight, because we are going to announce this at the closing ceremony tonight, and if you agree, we can start building momentum, probably around February next year, and if you don't agree, we will also announce it, but there will be no name on it."

"I can't agree directly, after all, I can't agree for my teammates, but ......"

Fu Tiao groaned, finally nodded, and asked, "How is this fund calculated?" ”

"All the money from the tickets goes to our foundation, and then it is sent from our side into food, clothing and other necessities to the war-torn area, which is the charity of the Ruhr area, not our family's charity."

Onesog spoke.

Hearing that Oonesog was like this, Fu Tiao thought about it and agreed.

"I can participate in this, but I still can't bring my orchestra with me, I need to go back and ask their opinions."

"Okay, then it's decided, if we're lucky enough to get support, we can still go to those places together for a condolence show, but everything is still in the unknown load."

Onesog nodded at Fu Tiao, stretched out his hand and saluted slightly.

Bite!

The bell rang, the closing ceremony was about to begin, and the people who had been chatting backstage, as well as those who were standing outside the concert hall, heard the bell and rushed towards the concert hall.

And Onesog also walked behind Fu Tiao at this time, patted him on the back, patted his body straight, and said with a smile.

"Alright, let's get ready to take the stage to receive the award, our best newcomer."

"Dio Fu!"

(End of chapter)