I could tell you many things about myself, if you are interested….anecdotes, travel tales, and a few secrets.
I would first tell you that I am a gypsy at heart, invariably curious about other lands and languages, their culture, music, and food. Food is the essence of a culture, an edible metaphor, or culinary shorthand, for who you are. So is your music. For me, the two are intertwined. For me, music is necessary nourishment without which my life would make no sense.
You will often find me in my kitchen, listening to a variety of songs from many disparate times and places, depending on my mood. I may be barefoot, hair pulled back, darting to and from the garden to pick fresh herbs, creating something slow, delicious, and subtle. My kitchen is a “slow food zone” where the chef has been known to break into song or dance mid –whisk. The flowers on my table, like my life, are colorful, real, and “arranged” by me. They are never perfect. Perfection is rarely interesting.
I could tell you that my Greek gypsy heart loves the wild weather, the wind and the rain; almost as much as I love the sunlit beaches of Italy and Greece….which is a considerable amount.
I might tell you that I decided to make Italian the next language I would learn after I heard someone say:” Agnello arrosto con barbabietole.” I thought it was pure linguistic romance. Actually, it was “roast lamb with beets”, but, everything just sounds better in Italian, doesn’t it? “La lingua della musica”….the language that sounds like music.
As for my debut CD,”Butterfly in the Snow”,it is aptly named.For like the butterfly released from its chrysalis, my melodies can take you on a journey of your own creation. Listen and you may travel to many a far flung place and time. You may visit Balaton, a European lake so vast it has been called” the Hungarian Sea”. Or you might whistle down a country lane in County Cork. You might eavesdrop on the secrets of the sea, whispered by the waves of the Aegean, or soar upward with the octaves of a lullaby, across the stars into your dreams. I hope my music can become if only for a little while, a background for the daily moments of your life. I will be curious to know if my music touches something in you, and when and where you like to listen. Finally, whether you listen alone, with friends, or with the one who is your singular focus, I hope my music takes you somewhere fresh and new…..