To me, music is almost the main means
that I can express myself
in order to express feelings, what I think about life, my point of view
To excite, to make a musical experience to everyone who listens to my compositions.
And there is no doubt that one of the most beautiful places in Tel Aviv to relax and think about music is this area that we're in it (Yarkon park),
and discussing the most important issue - the music.
A few years ago I was in a concert, in which the pianist was Daniel Gortler, a very fine pianist.
In the encore he played "Song with no words" by Mendelssohn, in C minor He played it in a very moving way.
I was deeply impressed both by the composition and his playing,
And the first thing that popped into my mind was writing variations for piano and orchestra in order to intensify Mendelssohn's great peace of work.
I called this piece "Summer dreams", and dedicated it to my good friend, Tal Arnon, for her marriage in the summer of 2011.
This composition has a number of tones, variations, to the piano and orchestra which focus on Mendelssohn's main theme of the "Song with no words", in C minor.
Here, in this building - Mann Auditorium, it all began. Starting from my early childhood and youth, I got to see the greatest performers who played here,
I used to come here to view Leonard Bernstein's rehearsals with the philharmonic orchestra.
I saw Daniel Barenboim a few times playing many pieces here.
I saw the great cellist Rostropovich playing, Murray Perahia, and many others too, of course.
Hence, in fact, I was inspired to both play the piano and compose classical pieces.
Mann Auditorium is like my second home. This is where I got my initial musical education.
and in a way, everything that happened to me started here.
The concerts in Mann Auditorium with the biggest pianists definately made me want to compose a big piano concerto, with 3 significant movements.
that expresses the pianist's capabilities, my own personal feelings as a composer and the big format of the concerto.
I chose to compose my first concerto as a 3 movement concerto, in B flat.
In the second movement, I think there was the biggest expression of emotions
such as anger, joy - everything a person probably have gone through in life and will go through in the future.
One of the pieces that have text, written by Guy Arnon, is a poem about the sun.
In the beginning I meant to compose it as a song,
but since I saw in it something beyond a song, more as a poem, I chose to compose it in a more orchesatrated manner, almost symphonic.
It is a 2 movement composition, which its first movement is completely orchestrated,
and its second movement is actually the song, which is sung by a soprano, with by a big orchestra.
This expresses the mightiness of the sun - in a very positive manner.
