Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and pursue a career in music?
I believe I’m a pianist because of a profound instinct which was born in me from the first time I touched a piano. When I began to study it, from the beginning, I knew that there was nothing else I could do in my life.
I even remember how I chose between piano and violin, saying that I like the violin but piano is a part of me.
Who or what were the most important influences on your musical life and career?
Well, I have many who’s because many people and events influenced my musical life:
I had several teachers, some were exceptional, some not so much, but I found all useful somehow because I could understand how I want to play and how I don’t want to play which is actually equal important!
But probably the event that made the biggest change in my playing was encountering the Russian piano school at the Moscow Conservatory where I studied for 5 years under the direction of Elisso Virsaladze.
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