Piano works
Piano Works – A Personal Reverence
Piano Works is more than a collection of piano reinterpretations — it is a return, a rite of passage, and an intimate dialogue with the instrument that has silently shaped my musical consciousness since childhood.
Though my formal training lies in classical clarinet, the piano has always lingered in the background — like a half-open door to a world I had yet to fully enter. I remember the small sitting room where my grandmother’s upright piano stood — quiet and majestic. I was a child, curious and wide-eyed, pressing its keys without knowing their names, yet captivated by the way they summoned something invisible and alive. I didn’t learn it then, but I never stopped listening.
This album was born during a period of rediscovery. While working on my narrative album Wuthering Heights, I began reinterpreting some of its themes through the piano — distilling their emotions, exploring the silences between the melodies. Many of the tracks here revisit that project, now stripped of layers and reframed in the gentle language of keys and harmonics. In that translation, I found a new way to speak — one more intimate, more vulnerable.
But this work would not have been possible without the guidance and friendship of pianist Code Assad. Through the wonders of online connection — video calls, shared screens, real-time sound — we explored the expressive terrain of the piano together. His mentorship challenged me to rethink my entire relationship with the instrument. He pushed me to leave behind the urge for precision and control, and instead embrace the raw, emotive force that the piano could offer. Each note became a choice, each phrase a question.
Piano Works is not about virtuosity. It’s about presence. Each track is a moment of encounter: between past and present, memory and imagination, sound and silence. It’s an ode to the piano — to its patient gravity, to the way it listened to me long before I learned to listen back.
And perhaps, above all, it’s a testament to the beautiful things that can emerge when we allow ourselves to be taught — again, and differently.