Be okay with where you are.

Dear my musicians colleagues, thank you for what you do.

Dear all the audiences, whether you came especially to support me or were just passing through and by some miraculous coincidence crossed paths with the music I humbly earnestly adore, revere, serve - thank you for listening. For connecting. For sharing your energy.

It does matter. Little huge moments. Simply bringing music of the highest calibre I can, on this day, to these public spaces. I’m so glad. I feel a part of the beautiful work that all my fellow artists do. To be me, also to be no one. Anonymous. Just music. Just one with the composers who wrote these pieces, and everyone else who has ever played, listened to, loved these notes.

It matters. It’s thrilling, to be in a public library with elevator bells going off during the quietest moments of the funeral march, with kids laughing and running around, with strangers walking right in front of the laser-focused small but mighty audience. There are still such intense moments of quiet. Of silence. Attention. Collective listening. Zoomed in on some energy. And it’s so astonishing. To be, even in this setting, transported to another space, realm. It’s so moving. To witness or hear in retrospect - from the mother with the stroller who cried through the entire concert, the deeply captivated elderly couple, the animated solo travellers, to the amused security guards and hardworking administrative team, to hear how the music elevated them, touched them - it’s more than enough. The almost tangible proof. That what we strive for is profoundly necessary.

And even on a simple “low-stakes” recital run-through day like this, I find the deepest meaning in what we do. I gave it my all. And I’m so glad. So amazed. There’s still much work to be done, but as I remind myself:

“Be okay with where you are.
Enjoy the process.”

Thank you all.

Next show, tomorrow 3pm at Memorial Classical for a very different kind of afternoon. 🔥🍷🧀

That’s all for now.
More soon,

Skye.pianist