Here I share music and performances that inspire me through their mastery, imagination, and individuality. The selection changes regularly.

I was fourteen when I first heard these performances. In them, I felt the wave of music lift me, and I started dreaming of what it might be like to ride its crest.

Martha Argerich entered my musical world in the late 1970s through Chopin’s Preludes, introduced to me by the outstanding Bulgarian pianist Emma Tahmizian. To this day, she remains my measure of uncompromising artistry and of the miracles that unfold in the silence between the notes.