“…what's amazing to me is that I can continue to be inspired by music I'm very familiar with…if it's well performed it continues to move me…When I was in a studio class in graduate school, for piano, a student was complaining about a piece he was having to learn…something that was played over and over and over again like a Chopin Polonaise. And the professor said something so profound: ‘When you step out on that stage to play this, there’ll be somebody hearing it for the [very] first time, but also somebody hearing it for the [very] last time.’ “