Piano practice for the next concert.

Music and language.

The Geistervariationen, Fêtes lointaines and In the Mists on the CD Shadowlines.

Socio-political events. The need to shake off certain prejudices.

The cultural centre Sinngewimmel.

The feeling of holding the unheard when receiving commissioned work from the composer.

Interdisciplinary projects and unexpected ways of expression.

The Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau and meeting Florian Noack.

The practice, the masterclasses, the concert tours, the teaching, the books, the exhibitions.

The HfM Karlsruhe. Professor Peter Eicher and the return to musical roots.

Schubert recordings by Ian Bostridge.

The HfMT in Cologne. Professor Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the discovery of contemporary music.

Hours at the harpsichord. Endless chamber music lessons.

Professor Anthony Spiri.

The Berlin Philharmonic, Cecilia Bartoli, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Radu Lupu, Arkadi Volodos.

The UdK Berlin. Professor Pascal Devoyon. The beginning of the lonely years.

The slogan of youth: ’After the concert is before the concert’.

The competitions.

Professor Sergey Kechek and the music association New Names.

The Zimmermann grand piano.

The soft-shaky No. 9 trolleybus that went to the music school on Khanjian Street.

Little brother watching cartoons to the accompaniment of classical music.

Bright green woollen gloves trimmed for piano practice.

The Ex Voto gallery of Papa on Aram Street.

Mama’s piano practice in the candlelight.