What role do Recitals play?

As mentioned in the previous post, Music Exams are often a part of the Diet of a Piano Teacher and Student's life.

Another Activity that comes up often are Recitals.

I have observed the following about Recitals

1) Recitals offer another external validation (other than Exams) to students and their parents about the progress being made

2) One of the most important role that recitals play is that they get students charged up about an event and they get to work and practice harder as they are being watched by an audience

3) Recitals are a great avenue to listen to other fellow musicians. This is extremely useful as students listen to music of different skill levels being performed (to various outcomes)

4) Recitals create a buzz in the environment of the Student and Teaching Community

5) Recitals also end up being informal venues to curate and cultivate a concert going audience

6) If you're teaching in a Music School set up, Recitals give you (the teacher) a platform to watch the work being done by your fellow Teachers and their students, it can be greatly inspiring

7) In the classroom, the weeks leading upto the Recitals are all about Rehearsing, Strategizing what to do if the student forgets a certain section, if performing as a group then how to cover up a perfomance error... All great life lessons

8) Recitals also are great platforms to test-run pieces that are going to be performed for Exams/Competitions

9) Recitals are excellent venues to try out own choice pieces that otherwise won't get played in an Exam

10) Recitals remind us that whether the performance went well or not as planned, its a learning curve and that we should learn and come back to it again