ℐ nspired by a cancerous society of today's Cosmos, the "Concerto for Piano and Symphony Orchestra" explores an internal monologue attributed by individuals who face derealization and depersonalization in a world of external and internal terrorism. A piece where music is genuinely the narrator of what human beings have gone through and are still evolving to become. The composition explores the artistic unity of the composer-performer and the questioning attitude as an individual that brings to the highest conflict with society. Through music narrative, relations between culture and individual artists are being depicted – in this case, the society represented by a symphony orchestra and the individual as an 'artistic persona' represented by the soloist/pianist.  The individual performer is shown as Aristotle's social animal by nature with the necessity to have his voice heard, becoming though 'verbally desperate' - like those who do not have a feeling for diplomacy but just an unquenched thirst for recognition. The orchestra, representing the loud society we live in, is making fun of the soloist. With sarcasm, irony, and dramatic shouts, it swallows the individual performer as he does not have the strength of being free of attachments and influences from the now 'forgotten' past of musical history. While he tries to find his voice in the backbone of structuralistic evolution, chaos is unleashed.

— Recorded at Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music on the 3rd of July 2017.

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ℐ nspired by a cancerous society of today's Cosmos, the "Concerto for Piano and Symphony Orchestra" explores an internal monologue attributed by individuals who face derealization and depersonalization in a world of external and internal terrorism. A piece where music is genuinely the narrator of what human beings have gone through and are still evolving to become. The composition explores the artistic unity of the composer-performer and the questioning attitude as an individual that brings to the highest conflict with society. Through music narrative, relations between culture and individual artists are being depicted – in this case, the society represented by a symphony orchestra and the individual as an 'artistic persona' represented by the soloist/pianist.  The individual performer is shown as Aristotle's social animal by nature with the necessity to have his voice heard, becoming though 'verbally desperate' - like those who do not have a feeling for diplomacy but just an unquenched thirst for recognition. The orchestra, representing the loud society we live in, is making fun of the soloist. With sarcasm, irony, and dramatic shouts, it swallows the individual performer as he does not have the strength of being free of attachments and influences from the now 'forgotten' past of musical history. While he tries to find his voice in the backbone of structuralistic evolution, chaos is unleashed.

— Recorded at Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music on the 3rd of July 2017.