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I saw one of my idols, Wibi Soerjadi, playing on tv.
And I thought to myself I want this too.
Eventually I saved up enough and bought my first grand piano.
From that moment on things just went better.
It's as if you hear thunder, power, on the one side.
That is the beauty of the grand piano.
You can give a song much more
power, depth, gravity or weight.
On the other hand from the
same instrument, you can put much
tenderness and feeling into it and
that is something which is only possible
with a grand piano and not with a keyboard or synthesiser.
One of my idols in piano music is Wibi Soerjadi.
He has done such beautiful things.
He made classical music accessible for a larger audience,
and especially for a younger audience.
Bollywood music is relatively simple, it has slight dynamics
And what I want to do is to blend that robustness
with the beautiful Bollywood melodies.
Thus I enrolled myself into the masterclass
of Wibi Soerjadi early this year.
It was a pretty intensive process,
because you have a questionnaire, you have to motivate your request
and above all you need to e-mail him a demo.
One month later, I received an e-mail that I was selected.
Meanwhile the masterclasses are completed and I am proud to say
that I have learned a lot and in the area of Bollywood music
I can follow my own path.
At the moment there are few pianists that focus on Bollywood music.
I want to play the beautiful Bollywood melodies in a Western classical style.
Where we make use of all piano keys and not just the keys in the middle.
Depending on the type of song and performance I can process a lot of
drama in my music, but also a lot of tenderness, feelings and love.
It actually depends on the song and the case of the song I play on the piano.
As an artist the best thing is when the audience returns home happily.
When people have visited my show I want them to have a feeling like,
"Wow, I want to experience this again."
I really appreciate that DesiYup takes the effort to provide opportunities
for relatively unknown artists or artists that want to try something new.
Nice YouTube movies, interviews, the website is amazingly beautiful.
Would you like more information about me or my musical activities?
Check my website krieshna.com
and follow me on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.