currently |
in Osaka (JP) |
preparing |
Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven AND Beethoven ... ! |
reading |
Michael Lüders' "die Spur der Schakale" |
started piano | aged 4 |
IS |
related to Willhelm Kempff
|
can stretch | from C to G (LH) |
last broke a string | 11am, 15/2/20 in Moscow (RU) - during practice |
also plays |
the guitar, violin and harmonica
|
studied with | Helen Goharitz ('82), Ronald Smith ('84), Chris Elton ('92), Clarence Myerscough ('93), Hamish Milne ('96), Howard Davis (96), Emmanuil Monaszon ('97), Matthew Coorey ('11) |
teaches at | Munich City music school |
adores the music of | Bruckner & Gershwin |
greatly admires | Bernstein, Giulini and Myung-whun Chung |
recently loved | revisiting the gorgeous Manhattan Rhapsody (Gershwin) with Coorey/BBCNOW |
recently didn't love | coping with a piano with a strangely weak top quarter |
enjoys | running, swimming, skiing, (mountain-)hiking/climbing, cycling, calisthenics, languages, cooking, coffee and films |
speaks fluent | English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Japanese |
and some | Korean, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Mandarin, Portuguese and Serbian |
and VERY little |
Polish, Norwegian, Danish, Slovene, Czech, Finnish, Cantonese, Turkish, isiZulu, Urdu, Estonian, Swedish, Arabic & Vietnamese |
likes | Atomic (ski), пельмени and South African Bordeaux blends |
drives | Hyundai Staria AWD, Cube Nature SL, Atomic G9s and Maverick Ti's |
skied | 7 days in winter '22/'23 |