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I am a big Liszt lover, so I always have Liszt repertoire that I'm working on or that I've

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recently performed.

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It's fortunate that there is a lot of competitions honoring Liszt and they all have different

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repertoire, different focuses.

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So I've been happy learning all this music for competitions.

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In 2021 there was a New York Liszt competition, the first edition of the New York Liszt competition,

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and I won second place.

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And the year before that in 2020 I was a semi-finalist in the Netherlands Liszt Utrecht competition,

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but unfortunately that competition was cancelled due to COVID.

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I really believe in creating a rich musical experience for the audience so that it's not

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just that they're going to listen to great classical music works, but that they are in

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some way having this whole experience that is designed for them and intended to help

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them connect to the composer, to the performer, to the music world in general.

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And there are many ways of doing that.

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Creating a program that is engaging is one of those ways.

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And then showing all the sides of your identity is also part of being a full artist.

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It's very important to me to not only excel in the classical music world, but connect

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to my roots and to people from Peru.

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The world needs something besides the traditional pianist.

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We used to think that being a pianist was practicing all day and reading the biographies

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of composers and having the best Lisztos and Dental etudes, or achieving that kind of only

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artistic excellence.

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And of course there is the side of that.

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But the world today needs an artist who is able to engage audiences, because the audience

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is not any, it isn't any more ready-made.

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The audience is not just there.

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We have to create the audience.

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We have to show that classical music is relevant.

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It's relevant today and it's relevant to regular people.

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And that is part of our responsibility.

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To hear the entire conversation with Dr. Priscilla Navarro, Liszt International Competition winner,

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the pianist, educator, and the new Peruvian figure of the piano.

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Please join the chat during the premiere of this special episode this Tuesday, May 7th,

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8pm Eastern on my YouTube channel.

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The audio podcast will be split into two parts.

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Part 1 will be dropped on your favorite podcasting platform at the same time of that video premiere.

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See you on Tuesday.