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Whenever someone posts a good live recording of their piece, its a pleasant surprise. Now, I know that it can be tricky, expensive, time-consuming, or all three, to produce a good recording, but I've often read comments here by people who don't even consider it a possibility. There are often competitions for composition, but how about a competition for music performance? I'm guessing that many people, myself included, could benefit from focusing more on performing as well. I think it helps to play an instrument in order to write idiomatically for it. For example, someone who doesn't play piano might write an excessively demanding piece where a simpler approach might be more effective. So, an idea for a performance competition could be that the winner could have a piece performed. We could perhaps sort entrants into categories fitting their musical ability, (i.e beginner, intermediate, advanced) so that everyone feels included, and we need to have a few experts assembled who have agreed to perform the winning piece. It would be great to see lots of helpful feedback about live performances on this site as well as the composition reviews. Anyway, what do you think?