

Shadows
I just came back from a week of masterclasses at the beautiful Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. As always, it was a joy to meet wonderful people and to visit a city which I hadn’t seen in twenty years. Budapest played an important role in music history and I also felt a little personal connection as my father’s family came from a German speaking part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Bukovina, which later became Rumania. Two weeks earlier, Guitarist Shani Inbar and I, aka