There’s something I’ve been reflecting on lately because a series of events that occurred recently, about a time that feels almost unreal to me. Some of you may already know this, but between the ages of 15 and 17 I completely stopped playing the piano. Not “reduced practice,” not “took it slow.” I literally didn’t play a single note for two whole years.
No scales, no études, no repertoire. Not even listening to music, Nothing.
When I made the decision to return, it was like waking up from a very long sleep and suddenly realizing I had only a tiny window of time to prepare myself for entrance exams and auditions. Looking back, the worries adults around me expressed make a lot of sense, but I had decided I had to try, even if it meant doing strange, eccentric things just to catch up. Some examples I can remember are having a stopwatch around my neck at all times and stopping it even for the tiniest things such as going to the toilet or drinking water. (Now, I truly believe it’s not about the time you spend but to know what you want to get done and simply doing it, so it can accumulate up to 8 or even more hours a day but that’s not the goal.) or not eating or sleeping until „I can play“ or memorize the piece, which also sounds so incredibly naive 🤣 I also went up the same hill that has a shrine for 100 days everyday to pray that I get accepted to the university. I was also obsessed with finger exercises such as cortot or Chopin, hanon, czerny……any etudes I could get my hands on. I practiced obsessively and excessively without contact to the world literally locking myself in my piano room.
(Btw I would never recommend those methods to anyone, by the way.)
The journey back was messy, chaotic, emotional, and honestly ridiculous but it also taught me the power of choosing something with your whole being, even when you feel impossibly behind.
So, what now? To truly „feel“ not just remember facts of what I did but to feel how that was the best thing to put you through the routine.
Scales, arpeggios and cortot, and two new Chopin etudes op.10-2 and op.25-6 😈👿
Let’s see where this goes! Would you be interested in daily updates? #warmup #piano #etude #pianolessons
Yesterday at Palais Coburg @palaiscoburg with @candlelight.concerts@fever_global ✨🕯️
Two completely different worlds, yet somehow deeply connected.
In Ludovico Einaudi, I felt something almost elemental… like waves, like a heartbeat, like the quiet force of nature moving through everything. At some moments, it felt as if what we carry inside is just a reflection of what’s already out there like an endless fractal, repeating, breathing. It made me unexpectedly emotional 🥲
And then Linkin Park 🔥 pure adrenaline, energy, and joy. Just letting go and riding the intensity.
Grateful for this journey between stillness and fire!! Thanks for coming! Next concert will on the 11th of September at @muthkonzertsaal
Played on the Bösendorfer Collector’s Item – The Great Wave off Kanagawa @boesendorferofficial
Toru Takemitsu — Piano Distance
Now I call this piece „variations on how silence can sound“🌬️🪽
The more time I spend with this piece, the more my perspective shifts. What first felt like an exploration of sound and the possibilities of the instrument has gradually revealed something else which I think is the way of listening to silence.
Each gesture, each resonance, seems to exist not only for itself, but to highlight what surrounds it.
I invite you to listen not only to the sounds, but to the silences they shape! 🫧🐚 full video will be up on YouTube soon!
