I am a big Liszt lover, so I always have Liszt repertoire that I'm working on or that I've
recently performed.
It's fortunate that there is a lot of competitions honoring Liszt and they all have different
repertoire, different focuses.
So I've been happy learning all this music for competitions.
In 2021 there was a New York Liszt competition, the first edition of the New York Liszt competition,
and I won second place.
And the year before that in 2020 I was a semi-finalist in the Netherlands Liszt Utrecht competition,
but unfortunately that competition was cancelled due to COVID.
I really believe in creating a rich musical experience for the audience so that it's not
just that they're going to listen to great classical music works, but that they are in
some way having this whole experience that is designed for them and intended to help
them connect to the composer, to the performer, to the music world in general.
And there are many ways of doing that.
Creating a program that is engaging is one of those ways.
And then showing all the sides of your identity is also part of being a full artist.
It's very important to me to not only excel in the classical music world, but connect
to my roots and to people from Peru.
The world needs something besides the traditional pianist.
We used to think that being a pianist was practicing all day and reading the biographies
of composers and having the best Lisztos and Dental etudes, or achieving that kind of only
artistic excellence.
And of course there is the side of that.
But the world today needs an artist who is able to engage audiences, because the audience
is not any, it isn't any more ready-made.
The audience is not just there.
We have to create the audience.
We have to show that classical music is relevant.
It's relevant today and it's relevant to regular people.
And that is part of our responsibility.
To hear the entire conversation with Dr. Priscilla Navarro, Liszt International Competition winner,
the pianist, educator, and the new Peruvian figure of the piano.
Please join the chat during the premiere of this special episode this Tuesday, May 7th,
8pm Eastern on my YouTube channel.
The audio podcast will be split into two parts.
Part 1 will be dropped on your favorite podcasting platform at the same time of that video premiere.
See you on Tuesday.