If one is afraid of getting nervous about playing in public, one ought to look for a listener. It doesn't matter much who it is. One may ask a janitor to come and listen.
[PC: hmmm sounds exactly like what Dr House did :P )
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We all have to relax physically in order to perform with minimum effort and at the same time we have to concentrate mentally. I used to advise my pupils that all concentration, while they perform music, should begiin above the eyes; it should not involve the shoulders, because any tension in the shoulders will make it impossible to relax arms and hands completely.
Satisfaction is chiefly provided by uninterrupted concentration. But this uninterrupted concentration is practically never achieved, even when one is at home. In a concert hall it is almost unthinkable, for there are always noises, sometimes adverse acoustic conditions, the unaccustomed piano which is often unsatisfactory, or for other instrumentalists and singers their accompanists or partners - and the constant possibility of diversion by the presence of the audience. I have tried all my life to become independent of all this, more and more.
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