I grew up with the piano on the China–Russia border, where winters were long. I was a child pursuing perfection and my piano stood against frost-covered windows. I reached the highest level of the national amateur system early on. And then, life asked, and I let the technical, painful training go.

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Years later, after moving to Paris and then to New York, I returned as a more listening, more searching human being.

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I now study in the Extension Division at The Juilliard School, after completing a Certificate in Piano Performance at New York University Steinhardt. My first piano recital was in 2022 at Juilliard’s Glorya Kaufman Studio with a classmate; in 2025, I was selected to perform at the San Diego International Piano Competition and Festival for Outstanding Amateurs.

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In those years of returning, I sometimes opened my home for small evening gatherings. Ministers, artists, friends sat cross-legged on the floor, listening and occasionally rise up and play.

 

I am drawn to music that holds space: late Beethoven, Schubert, and the suspended air of Scriabin. Lately, I am working on Schumann’s Kinderszenen which I hope to upload soon.

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The piano lets me sit with my own thoughts and return, again and again, to what is essential.

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