Her Kingdom is the Piano...oh, well, if you play another instrument her kingdom would

 be another instrument, because  Domirela  can be everywhere with her fairies and elves.

 When little children start playing, all her helpers will lead their fingers  and help them

 play beautifully.But, like all fairies, to fulfill your wish, she will give you a task, a simple

 one : practice everyday, learn the piece without mistakes, then she will open the magic

 world of music for you and your listeners.My mother came up with this story when I was

 little to help me overcome the nervousness before a public performance. In some

 occasions I even felt a warm presence around me and I also saw a little sparkle in the

 piano. Was it Domirela ? Maybe. After all, I think she was,  because her name itself is

 made of names of  music sounds : Do, Mi, Re, La..Music is Magic after all, and we have to understand that every piece is a " new world " opening to us.

As I said in my biography, I started studying piano  with my mother and in parallel at the Music School in my native town of

 Deva. When I was practicing she  always said  to actually study the piece, to find out what all those notes  want to "say"

 because, every composition has a story, it is an entire world, like a time capsule in a state of immortality. Each time we

 open it through practice or performance in public, we have to bring to life all its treasures. The world of music is

 multidimensional although .Even when now, when I warm up with scales and arpeggios and studies by Czerny, I always

 imagine waterfalls, raindrops on the roof, Mary-go-rounds, butterflies. When I was  little, the imaginative thinking, based

 on the perception of the sounds was guiding me. Later, when I started studying piano Pedagogy I found that this way of

 approaching music is called " the creative hearing" which helps you to  create in advance, before touching the instrument,

 the sonority required for a piece.

" Your  ears will always lead you correctly, but you must know why"

                                                                                                             ( Anton von Webern 1883-1945)

What started in my childhood as a fairy tale, made up by my mother, has developed  over the years in my own way to

 approach the study of a musical composition and also as the main principle of pedagogy. I try to apply, as much as

 possible, with my students , the same guiding tools for their practice and performances

"Domirela" helped me , when I was little, to re-create in my mind the stories, the landscapes, the ideas, the feePage3(Repertoire)(complete)(done)lings in every

 piece I played. I try to keep alive that " magic word " and I want to share it with my students and my audience every time I perform.

As the great Romanian Pianist Dinu Lipatti said : " Music must come to life under our fingers, in our eyes, in our heart and

 in our mind, with everything we can possible offer "

On the page - My way - of my site , you can read selections of my essay " The way I approach the study of a music piece"

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