Accompaniment

Actually early this year I had already started on a couple of accompaniment jobs, just never got around to writing about the experience.
It all came about rather by chance. The boss of the music school I work in is a violin teacher, and he approached me to check if I could help a couple of his students in their violin exam as accompanist. I haven't done this officially for money before, even though I've played accompaniment many times in ensembles, choir and other instruments back in school days. Nonetheless, it didn't seem too daunting a task and I gladly took on the work.
It has been really fun actually, the interaction between two instruments and players reminds me again how making music in a group really multiplies the fun element in music making. In addition to the music exams, I also helped out in the annual music school student recital, accompanying the little violinists on the piano, as captured below.