00:00My mother is a piano teacher, and she was the one who started teaching me all the basics in music and also playing recordings for me. I guess I had an inspiration from that age because of my mother.
00:18I was very lucky because I had my mother at first as a first teacher, then Tamara Popovich. She was very famous for working with kids, with talented kids, and giving them a foundation, technical foundation, and general understanding of music.
00:43And after that, at the age of 16, I moved to Kansas City, to the United States, to study with another compatriot of mine, Stanislav Yudenich, who comes also from Tashkent.
00:57So I've studied with him, and that was a different kind of work. It was about refining your technique, understanding the styles, and different composers, and the language of music.
01:13Being on stage, I feel a responsibility. Because we, as musicians, performing musicians, we serve as a bridge, let's say, between the composer and the audience.
01:37So we are spending many, many hours learning the score, and also understanding the score, and trying to interpret and transfer the composer's intentions to the audience.
01:55Of course, it's not like you just copy whatever is written and then play like a robot, but you have to put your feelings, emotions.
02:07Any audience member who comes to the concert, even if they are not familiar with classical music, if they feel something, if I could awake some emotions in them, it's a success.
02:19One of the challenging things is, simply, is you are never home. You have to travel, you have to fly, check in, check out, and long flights.
02:34But you get used to it, and changing time zones, and feeling constantly jet-lagged.
02:40Classical music is something that will always be with us. It's something that human beings came up with, something most beautiful.
02:54Because it doesn't depend on any politics or anything else. It's just pure.
02:59It's a very proud moment for humankind, I think, not just a nation.
03:06So, I always loved music, from my experience, from as a child.
03:11Yes, there were some moments where I didn't want to practice, to be honest, sure.
03:16But I always loved music.
03:19I always thrived to be a professional musician, play around the world, in all these great concert halls.
03:28I was dreaming, let's say, about playing at the Paris Philharmonies, Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall in New York City, or Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
03:39So, it all came true.
03:43As a kid, I was always excited, you know, around New Year's time.
03:51One of my favorite movies was Home Alone.
03:55There was a moment in the second part, Home Alone 2, in New York City, he meets this woman.
04:04And then she takes him, little Kevin, she takes him to some concert hall, a very beautiful concert hall.
04:12And then they listen to music, to a symphonic orchestra.
04:15And I always wondered, as a kid, I was wondering, what is this concert hall?
04:20So beautiful, so amazing.
04:24And it became a dream.
04:27One day, I would like to perform on that stage.
04:29So, I was, what, 24 years old, and I'm on stage of Carnegie Hall, and then it came to my mind, this was the Carnegie Hall.
04:43In New York City, the most famous concert hall in the world.
04:46So, that dream, while I was seven years old, came true.
04:52So, that dream, while I was seven years old, came true.
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