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So your new album is called Kaleidoscope.

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Can you share more about the programming of this album and the inspiration behind it?

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This album gathers women composers from all over the world and they're amazing works for piano.

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So I'm very excited to perform works by Gabriela Ortiz, by Yoko Kano, by Carolyn Morris, by Enkei Rwokoye,

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by Dobrinka Tabakova, Carmen Rodriguez, well you know composers from all over the world.

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And it's so exciting to bring all these influences together to see how diverse and how beautiful

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are all these different expressions, musical expressions for all around the globe

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and promote contemporary music too, which is something that is very important for me.

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So yeah, this is the premise of Kaleidoscope.

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So diverse cultures, diverse perspectives, diverse musical styles coming together in this pianostype.

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For our upcoming episode, we welcome Dr. Isabel Perez-Dovarro,

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international concert pianist, advocate for women composers, and champion of global sustainability.

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I had a pleasure of interviewing her on the very day of her new solo piano album, Kaleidoscope, was released.

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So honored that Isabel chose the piano pot to exclusively share the news of this exciting release.

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Women composers are underrepresented in programs, but then women composers from

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certain continents are underrepresented from this underrepresentation.

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So you know it's also scale and there's such amazing music that it's really what Kaleidoscope

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wants to bring is, hey here you have these extraordinary composers all around the globe,

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you have these beautiful cultural influences that come together through this work.

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So you know as a performer I think part of my responsibility is to you know bring this music

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to life and present this music. I think that's part of what we have to do and we have that

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responsibility to make sure music is alive, to make sure that you know music still is being created.

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It's also promoting this contemporary music and also promoting this underplayed, unfortunately,

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music that is not as played as it should and that could create interesting and really relevant

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role models for younger generations for sure.

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Dear TPP friends and listeners, don't miss this incredible opportunity to hear Isabel's

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inspiring journey to advocate women composers from all over the world.

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Join us tomorrow October 22nd at 8 p.m eastern time for an engaging conversation streaming on

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the Piano Pods YouTube channel and available on all major podcast platforms. Tune in and let

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this conversation spark new insights into your musical journey.