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The cimbalom is my key to the world. 🌍
I come from a small Czech village — and so did József Schunda, who perfected the concert cimbalom in the 1870s before carrying it out into the world. A century later, I followed him. The opportunities I dreamed of didn't exist, so I created them: I became the first university-level cimbalom student in the United States, then the cimbalom carried me onward — to China and the yangqin, to a master's at Berklee College of Music, what many call the most famous music school in the world, during two years in my dreamed-about New York City, and finally back to Beijing. I never asked permission; I believed in this instrument until the world made room for it. I play both cimbalom and yangqin as proof that music needs no translation, and that what divides us is smaller than the strings we share.
