I attended a mastery class in Holland last year and I received the biggest prize they had, which is a tour around Holland and also my first performance at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. I am very happy about this.

What is the programme of this tour?

It is a recital programme. We will perform five recitals, and the programme is a very beautiful one. I am very glad that I could include a Romanian composition as well, Dinu Lipatti's Sonatina for the Left Hand, as well as Schumann's Abegg Variations, Beethoven's Sonata Op. 10 No. 2 and Chopin's Scherzo No. 2.

Regarding Dinu Lipatti's opus… Why did you choose his music from all the Romanian compositions?

Dinu Lipatti is a composer and above all a pianist whom I love. I've been looking up to Dinu Lipatti my whole life and that is the reason why I am very happy to have the chance to include one of his works into the programme and I'm thinking especially about the future, about 2017, when the 100^th anniversary since his birth will be celebrated. Two years ago we performed his Concertino for Piano and Orchestra in Great Britain for the first time. On that occasion I became very fond of his music, not only of his interpretations, and I was very glad that I was able to include the Sonatina into the programme.

What's next after the Holland tour?

The busiest month ever; I will return to Great Britain to attend the Stoke on Trent Festival, which is very famous here, and then I will perform Rachmaninoff's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 with Bath Philharmonia. After a few days, I will leave for Dubai for the first time to perform Mozart's Concerto No. 21 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. At the end of February I will be back to Great Britain with the Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra to perform Grieg's Concerto. It will be a busy month, full of many beautiful programmes which I am very happy about.