You have mentioned in an interview that you have decided to come back to Romania willing to take part in the development of the classic guitar community here. I understand that the recital at the Romanian Athenaeum on the 8^th of October also represents your official comeback to the Romanian stage.

Yes, indeed. I have had performed around the country since I came back. Technically, I am here right now. I had the opportunity to perform in a few concerts alongside maestro AlexandruTomescu, but I considered that a solo recital in a hall as beautiful as the one at the Athenaeum should mark my permanent move here and even the programme I have chosen for this concert traces, in a way, my artistic path, the places I have been to, what influenced me very much, the music that inspired me, Romanian, Spanish, Japanese and Viennese. In a way, this concert sums up my years abroad and my return to the country. I came back willing to help the upbringing of the musical community, especially in my hometown, Iași. I was lucky enough to have some very caring teachers, who raised me in my shaping years and I think it's my duty to help the next generations to develop.

The recital at the Romanian Athenaeum is part of the "Heirs of Musical Romania" series, a project initiated by Radio România Muzical. Also, you're a laureate of the "Heirs of Musical Romania" scholarship, the 2021 edition. What were your motive to participate in the "Heirs of Musical Romania" scholarship?

My motives were simple. I ardently wanted to reconnect with the Romanian stage, a stage which I had left since I was 18 years old and with which I felt that I was losing touch. For me, the "Heirs of Musical Romania" scholarship was like a gift, so to speak, aside from the concerts I acquired, aside from the debut album, which was also a big achievement for me, the scholarship also made it possible for me to get in contact with Alexandru Tomescu, with whom I have also shared the stage in the Stradivarius tour and we still do, the scholarship brought me to the Romanian music's stage. I am deeply thankful for this scholarship and especially for the Rotary Club Pipera and ms. Cristina Comandașu who were like my musical parents, mentors, they brought me home.

How did this project influence your professional path?

It made my return to Romanian more manageable, it showed me that there is a big audience in Romania keen on classical music, that there are beautiful projects to be developed, that it is a place where us, the artists, can try to evolve. To see that I have every reason to return home helped me.

The "Heirs of Musical Romania"scholarship gave you, as you said, the opportunity to record a recording session, materialized in an album entitled "Guitar Delights" published by Casa Radio Publishing House in 2023. A second edition of the album will be released on the 8^th of October at the recital at the Athenaeum. What can you tell us about this CD?

It started from the idea of homesickness. I would say the main players on this record were two ballads. The first is the famous Ciprian Porumbescu ballad, which I started improvising once on guitar and that improvisation developed, I started absorbing theme 1, theme 2 and I realized that I had finished the whole Ciprian Porumbescu ballad on guitar and it was pretty good. The second ballad is by my former teacher and mentor, Andrew Zone, a very atmospheric ballad, with a bit of a melancholic theme, which tends towards very intense feelings. These two ballads are the two ballads around which I've built my journey, my homesickness. A lot of works from the Balkan, but also international works, which lead a bit to the idea of home. I'm glad we're going to re-release the second edition of the album. I hope that people who listen to it will experience the same things that I felt, which is a deep connection to home and what home means, because it is a unique feeling for each one of us.