Interview: Marina Staneva, Pianist

As a musician, what is your definition of success? Feeling that the audience can find their own pictures and emotions in my playing and that I touched their hearts. Also, I love the idea of giving a performance that might be my last one so I would take more risks. It’s more exciting than playing everything “perfectly”. What do you consider to be the most important ideas and concepts to impart to aspiring musicians? Reaching beyond what is written in the score in order to bring composer’s ideas to live. And as Menahem Pressler says perform as if “ your life depends on it! ” (via)]]>