Biography

I grew up surrounded by music: my father is a composer, my mother is a pianist, Vivaldi was my lullaby, and concerts were a constant part of my childhood. As a teenager, my friends and I became determined to attend every concert at the National Philharmonic Hall, often going two or three times a week, and somewhere along the way I realised that music was not simply something I loved – it was what I wanted my life to be about.

A turning point came when I was selected for a talent-development programme for young musicians. Through the programme, I began performing and travelling extensively. One day I could be playing in a major concert hall, and the next in a community where a concert might be a rare and special occasion. What fascinated me most was seeing how differently people responded to the same music, and yet how universally it could move them. It did not matter who was sitting in the audience, where they came from, or how familiar they were with music; everyone could have a completely personal reaction to the same piece. I began to understand that music has a remarkable ability to create a moment of connection between people who may otherwise have very little in common.

Since then, I have continued to explore as many sides of music as possible. Chamber music became an especially important part of my musical life because of the intimacy of making music with other people: listening, reacting and finding something together that none of us could create alone. Orchestral playing offers a different kind of connection – the feeling of becoming one small part of something vast, where hundreds of individual voices somehow become one.

Contemporary music has a particularly special place in my musical life. Growing up around composers, and later discovering composers whose music completely challenged my understanding of what music could sound like, taught me to approach every piece without preconceptions. I love the sense of curiosity it creates: there is often no familiar path to follow, and every new work asks me to listen, question and discover.

Baroque music became an important part of my musical life during my studies at the Royal Academy of Music, while folk music from different cultures has become one of my greatest interests. I love discovering how different communities express their identity, history and emotions through sound.

Teaching has become equally meaningful to me. My own teachers have shaped not only my playing but the person I have become, and I want to pass on some of that experience. I would love to help children discover the world of music as a place of joy, curiosity and freedom – a world they can enter, explore and make their own, and perhaps a place they can always return to when they need it.

I love walking through busy streets and listening. Voices, footsteps and street musicians blend into something unexpected. If you pay attention, the world is constantly making music. I think that is why music became my calling: I don’t only play it. I experience the world through it.