College Student’s Piano Performance Anxiety

Stage performance is an art, whether it is a vocal or instrumental music class what kind of music forms, are music performers show ego skill and the best way to transfer the emotions. The piano performance generally in the form of examination, competitions, performances on the stage, which requires the performer should not only have good psychological quality and physiological function, the knowledge of good play, singing skills. However, piano performance anxiety is a common phenomenon, both amateur and professional colleges of music students or mature artists is concerned in the process of piano performance anxiety problem will face different levels of performance. Especially in college students in the group, a lot of people in the early stage can appear insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, fear, loss of appetite and other symptoms, the impact of these symptoms are more or less the normal study and life of the college students. Studies show that moderate piano performance anxiety can contribute to the interpretation of performers more wonderful music, and serious degree of piano performance anxiety can lead to the performer’s stage fright, tension, mind blank, rigid body, and even many times over time due to excessive tension out of control and interrupt performing on stage, the formation of a fear of the stage and initiation of the idea of a career change. In front of the worrying phenomenon, through the clear health care or medication to alleviate psychological state of anxiety in the piano performance has increasingly appear insignificant, this paper studies the core issue is: investigating and analyzing the current situation of college students’ piano performance anxiety, a specific factor in the production of piano performance anxiety, and how to ease the anxiety of piano performance. Try from philosophy(Plato "fans crazy"), kinematics(yoga and qigong auxiliary relaxation), music aesthetics, music perfect unification of content and form), personal construct psychology(positive psychological construct), and other fields, with scientific theory as the fundamental point and the breakthrough point, explore the piano performance anxiety problems from multiple perspectives. In the attribution of piano performance anxiety issues analysis, on the basis of development thinking, in combination with other disciplines of theoretical research and ideological basis to try to find out more ease effective and reasonable scheme of college students’ piano performance anxiety, in a more relaxed, without damaging the supplementary motor combining positive psychological suggestion to adjust itself, to reduce the role of piano performance anxiety. Hope the research of piano performance professional college students anxiety problems of substantive help before and after the performance, will perform to the best.