Where are you from/where do you live?
I´m from Ukraine. I live in city Sumy.
What are you doing?
I’m pianist and artist. I teach in art school.
What is the Ukrainian in you?
І have Ukrainian self-irony, will, freedom and good appetite.
What is the European in you?
I love German romanticism. The music of romantic composers is close to me. (R. Schumann)
These handwritten notes are part of a piece by Robert Schumann that Viktoriia played often as a 17-year-old and gave her a special feeling of happiness. When she plays it now, it is always a reminder of an unattainable state from the past.
