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When inspiration streaks (or how I became a composer)
If someone had told me even one year ago that I would be recording an album with my own songs I would have laughed. Sure, I´ve been playing piano for a long time – and improvising has been part of that for many years. But still – “composing” seemed very far away, not to mention the patience to practice… But isn´t that the beauty of being a scanner – you never know what waits around the corner! One day in late May 2017 I received a very unusual gift – and this changed everything: Like many times before, I sat down by the piano and started to play. Two hours later I had recorded 12 totally…