You learn harp with a score.
Very early, everything goes through there.
Read. Follow. Reproduce.
It's a base.
A structure.
But at some point, it's not enough anymore.
What limited me most at first was my relationship to the score.
The fact of having to follow her.
Not being able to play freely without her.
This is not a question of execution.
But there was something set in advance.
And it created a real conflict.
Because at the bottom, partition is a tool.
A tool of work, of transmission.
A way to enter the universe of a composer.
But the music doesn't start there.
Then something changed.
I started playing jazz.
To express feelings through the same melody, each time differently.
The same melody becomes something else.
A new world.
A new idea.
And yet, these are the same notes.
That's what I think is strong.
Somehow, it also exists in classical music.
But here, there's another report at the moment.
Of course, there are rules.
Jazz, modern music.
But improvise, or just play without the score, that's where the music really starts.
It's growing. It creates something and transmits.
Today, I play the harp in a way that the conservatory has not learned.
I had an entirely classical training.
At the Sofia Superior Conservatory, Bulgaria, in the tradition of Russian school.
Then in France, in another tradition.
All this gave me tools, rigor, a deep knowledge of the instrument.
But in a specific setting.
When I entered jazz and current music, I had to look elsewhere.
Find my own tools.
And of course, getting out of some codes.
Not to reject them.
But to go further.
The rhythm becomes central.
You have to be comfortable, be in place, feel the movement.
Sound changes, too.
It depends on the gesture, the touch, the way to play.
And the effects we choose.
Sometimes you have to adapt the technique.
Change certain positions.
That's where the search begins.
And for me, that's it, playing the harp differently.
Open space.
A free field to create, compose, arrange.
Challenges.
Overtake.
And keep looking.
Always.
For me, it's important that music evolves.
Because we live in an era and we have to live our instrument in the music of our time.
That's how I found my way.
A place where I feel freer and fairer.
Always in search.Always in creation.
With this desire to do good through music.
I think art can touch, transform.
And for that, he has to stay alive.
Address the public today.
To me, that's it, to play the harp differently.
Take what I learned from classical, Baroque music
and make it evolve into a language today.
