I think that I was born a pianist but I have started to learn to be a performer when I have started my career 20 years ago.  To perform on stage is something very special and very different if I compare it to when I was an accompanist.  But now that I am a performer I must say that I really enjoy performing on stage as I have full direct contact with the audience.  I feel it and I do enjoy it.

I am trying to concentrate as much as I can in order to transmit, through the piano, all my feelings.  I have often been asked if I was thinking of a sunset or a beautiful landscape while playing.  In fact, I'm thinking of my music, how to play it the best way. 

My concert audience is very eclectic.  I mean that there are parents with their young children who are piano students, teenagers who are piano lovers, grandparents who have been my fans forever...   Well all generations are present.  I like to perform for them as I think that they enjoy it and feel emotions in the same way as I do.  of course, I would not like to perform for people who would not like what I do.  That would be hateful for me and for them!!

I was born with music around me.  As my father was a piano teacher there was not one day without music at home.  Accordingly I went to the keyboard quite naturally when I was 3 or 4.  As I seemed to be interested my father showed me how to play.  Then I went to music school and later on the music conservatory before I started to play as an accompanist.  When I was 25 I started my own career.  Therefore I can truly say that music has always been part of my life.

My dream when I was young was to be a pianist: I do not mean a solo performer but an accompanist, a session musician.  I could not imagine that could be a solo performer: this would not have been realistic.  Even when I did my first recording "Ballade pour Adeline", I could not imagine that it would lead to a career.

Very often I am asked what I would have dreamed to be if I was not pianist and in most cases I answer that one of my dreams would be to be a tennis champion.  Actually I started playing tennis when I was about 30 and I have such tremendous admiration for the champions that I regret not to be as good as they are.

I wish I could one day do a recording with one of the American Jazz masters, it it's not really a dream it's more like a thought which crosses my mind sometimes.  My priority is to always want to improve myself technically and in transmitting my feelings.

No, strangely I don't remember it.  When I am in China or some other distant country and I hear one of my songs on the radio, I am firstly pleased, then I try to listen carefully in order to pay attention to the way it sounds coming out of the speakers of the radio.