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I'm an artist who doesn't tick any boxes.

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I don't fit neatly into a style or an expectation.

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I'm very multi-faceted and my background, my education, my training and now my work

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gives this multi-diverse approach.

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And I think that as my artistry has been growing and changing and I've been

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maturing as a pianist, I'm starting to realise that it's being yourself and being

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authentic is what makes you an artist.

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Join us for an exciting episode, Blurred Boundaries Classical Meets Jazz, featuring

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Ophelia Gordon, concert pianist, recording artist and one of the world's leading

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interpreters of Nikolai Kapustin.

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Ophelia shares how Kapustin's genre-defying music helped her find her artistic

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identity, blending classical precision with jazz freedom.

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It can take a long time to figure out who you are and then when you start realising

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that you're not meant to be another person, you're not meant to be another type

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of musician, and we will only grow as an individual if we embrace ourselves.

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And I think it's that distinction between kind of doing what's expected and then

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actually playing really what connects to you and just going with that.

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And as soon as I started almost like rebelling in some way and not playing the

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repertoire that everyone was expecting me to play, my performing was improving

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because I felt this is really what I should be doing, and especially with Kapustin

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because it speaks to me and it speaks to my education as well.

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It's made me feel very at home.

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We also explore improvisation in classical music, the influence of jazz and the

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making of her upcoming album, Between the Lines.

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Kapustin doesn't fit into a box either, and I think that must be what drew me to

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him, and I'm hoping with Kapustin that I'm able to show my journey through the

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album because I'm not playing his music purely because I like it.

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It's for a very different reason, and I think the album has come exactly at the

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right time in my life, and it's an album about a journey.

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Tune in Tuesday, February 25th at 8pm Eastern Time on YouTube and all major

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podcast platforms.

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Substack subscribers get early access one day before the official release.

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Don't miss this inspiring conversation on music, artistry, and breaking boundaries.