Inspiration

 

I was drawn to Chopin and even asked my mother’s boss—who was Polish—to teach me the language. Not conversational but just the basics, enough to feel a bit closer to the composer and the music.

 

Through her, I met her husband John, who introduced me to the Vice President of the Chopin Foundation in Miami. I was invited to play, and that led to a year’s scholarship at the University of Miami School of Music.

I still remember working on Chopin’s Etude Op. 25 No.1.

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