Since childhood, classical music has been close to my heart and touches my soul. The fact that I am a pianist and can perform the works of the greatest composers makes me happy. Every public performance is always something special for me. It allows me to share my inner self with the audience by conveying the emotions contained in a piece of music. As Claude Debussy said: "Music begins where words are powerless." It undoubtedly expresses feelings and emotions that most often cannot be conveyed in words. This is why working on each piece is so magical and fascinating. For one has to guess these emotions, moods, psychophysical states of the composer during the creative process. One has to make attempts to achieve at least a substitute for that state of inspiration that accompanied the creator during composition. Of course, this guessing and the building of interpretations on it in its nature is subjective. But that is what makes this field of art so beautiful and appealing. Each artist interprets a given work in a different way, conveying his own vision of the composer's emotions. Here we touch on another aspect of performance that I have been pondering for a long time. Well, every person feels emotions in a slightly different way. Everyone experiences sadness, despair, joy, disappointment, love differently... The beauty of interpreting musical works also lies in the fact that each performer shares with the listener his or her own feeling of the emotions conveyed by the composer through music. Therefore, in the first place, one must not be ashamed of one's emotions, because only then can one reach the souls and hearts of the listeners, sharing with them all that one has inside. This is fundamental in my artistic life. I play to convey emotions, to evoke the spirit of the composer contained in his work.
I often find myself conducting my own concerts. I do this especially when performing for audiences who feel the need to know more about what they are listening to. I very much enjoy performing for people who don't go to classical music concerts very often, who claim that they "don't know anything about music." Such people listen with their hearts! I always say that you don't need to know classical music to experience it, to experience the magic that accompanies it, to feel the touch of inspiration from the composer himself and finally to be moved or even inspired. The music is very diverse. Not only does it relax us, but it can also move us to dance, sometimes rouse us to fight, to do heroic deeds, awaken us to love, joy, emotion, make us want to be better people or simply provide us with entertainment. This is why I often precede my performances with a few sentences about the composer or the piece. Sometimes all it takes is a little knowledge of how to direct the reception of the piece being listened to to feel it deeply and even understand it!
Performing the works of the greatest geniuses comes with great responsibility. I feel it very strongly and take it very seriously. Hence, I believe that it is impossible to play the music of a given composer without knowing the literary texts that shaped his personality, without knowing the details of his life and without somehow trying to delve into his psyche in an attempt to guess what kind of person he really was. Often, however, music is the only way for a composer to express his inner world, to which no one on the outside has access.