I’m Robert Estrin. Welcome to LivingPianos.com. In this video, I’m sharing an excerpt from my recent interview with Zsolt Bognár, where we discuss everything from my YouTube channel to the wide range of content I create. If you’re interested in the full conversation, be sure to check out the complete interview here. Enjoy the clip!
Zsolt:
I’ve known about your channel for a long time. I have many colleagues and friends who grew up watching your many videos. At the time that we’re speaking, you have about 1400. You have nearly 30 million views.
Robert:
Being in 21st-century America, classical piano is irrelevant to a lot of people’s lives. But by casting a wide net, I’m able to connect with people who love the piano as I do. And that is very gratifying.
Zsolt:
This is a channel on which you host what kind of content for your over 110,000 subscribers right now, which is the envy of many serious channels in the classical music world?
Robert:
Well, I have a very wide range because, you know, with, as you say, over 1400 videos, there’s always new topics. And the most remarkable thing is I have a document with suggested topics. Whenever I think of a topic, wherever I am, I whip out my phone, go to my Google Drive, and put the topic in there. So I probably have 100 new topics that I haven’t done yet on there, and they’re inspired, a lot of them are inspired by my students and such. So they range from piano instructional type of videos—not going through a piece note by note, but more like concepts, whether it’s how to deal with expression or something of that nature or technical challenges—but also piano videos about the construction of pianos, because I also am involved with pianos as well as piano playing.
Watch the complete interview here.