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Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.

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My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

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I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the easiest. I enjoy the challenges - especially those that come with composers who have written contemporary music for the recorder.

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Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible.

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You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

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In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too much and forcing the instrument. It is very easy to be overly expressive on the recorder, and finding the balance is quite difficult.

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