My favorite hobby is playing the piano, that I started playing when I was 6 years old. At the age of 8, I started sudying with Stephen Paulello  at the Conservatoire Gabriel Faure, in Paris. In college, I performed as a soloist with orchestra. I played the 3rd piano Concerto by Beethoven, conducted by Partice Holiner at the Ecole Polytechnique (1998). My favorite composer is Franz Liszt.

The three mp3 links below are three pieces which I played during a Concert at the Ecole Polytechnique in France, in 1996. These are live recording.
 

click here to hear mp3:	Hexameron variations by Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Sigismond Thalberg (1812-1871), Johann Peter Pixis (1788-1874), Henri Herz (1803-1888), Carl Czerny (1791-1857) and Frederic  Chopin (1810-1849). This piece has been composed by the six composers together, in the form of variations, for which Liszt wrote an introduction and a final. The piece is a transcription of a March by Bellin, from the Opera Il Puritani. The exact title of the piece is: Morceau de Concert - Grandes Variations de Bravoure pour Piano sur la Marche des Puritains de Bellini, composees pour le Concert de Mme la Princesse Belgiojoso au Benefice des pauvres.                                             1.Introduction: Extremement lent (Liszt)                                              2.Tema: Allegro marziale ('Suoni la tromba', from I Puritani by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), transcribed by Liszt)                                              3.Variation I: Ben marcato (Thalberg)                                              4.Variation ll: Moderato (Liszt)                                              5.Variation III di bravura (Pixis) - Ritornello (Liszt)                                              6.Variation IV: Legato e grazioso (Herz)                                              7.Variation V: Vivo e brillante (Czerny) - Fuocoso molto energico; Lento quasi recitativo (Liszt)                                              8.Variation VI: Largo (Chopin) - (coda) (Liszt)                                              9.Finale: Molto vivace quasi prestissimo (Liszt)
click here to hear mp3:	Invocation (Harmonies poetiques et religieuses S173 No. 1), by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
click here to hear mp3:	Petrarch Sonnet No.104 (Années de Pèlerinage - Deuxième Année - Italie S161), by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)