An Interpreting Report On An Academic Lecture By The Italian Pianist Peter Paul Kainrath

On July 14th-July 20 th,2017,2017 Lanzhou International Piano Festival was successfully held in the Gansu Grand Theater with the purpose of implementing the new silk road concept of the Belt and Road initiative,strengthening the status of Lanzhou as a regional central city,and expanding cultural radiation.The report is based on interpreting practice of the author on a 2-hour academic lecture during 2017 China Lanzhou International Piano Festival.The theme of the lecture is “International Piano Competition”.In the lecture,the author's main task was to provide consecutive interpretation for Peter Paul Kainrath,the renowned Italian pianist and educator.In the report,the author analyzed and summarized the problems in the process of interpreting based on Hans Vermeer's skopos theory and some interpreting skills,such as amplification,omission,inversion,and the like.The report consists of five parts.The first part is an introduction.The second part is the task description including types and environment of interpretation,requirements from the entrusting party,and the like.The third part is interpreting process.Firstly,the author introduced the preparation before interpretation including the background information,interpreting theories and methods,glossary,and the like;Then the author described the process of interpretation;Finally,evaluation from the entrusting party,the client and peers are presented by the author.The fourth part is case analysis.The author analyzed some difficulties from aspects of accent,number,memory,musical knowledge and long paragraph combining with typical examples.The author also put forward some interpreting skills to address these difficulties.The last part is conclusion containing the summary of the practice and implication for the future study.