"Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. "


"Man shall not live by bread alone. "

"Fortune favors the brave. "

"Nothing venture, nothing win. "

"There is no royal road to learning. "

"There is no rule without exceptions. "

"The proof of the pudding is in the eating. "

            My favorite quotes : Just do it.
 
 At ANY SITUATIONS and  PLACES, all over the world,
 using several different languages at the same time,
 recognizing cultural differences of each races,
 to keep the STRONG HEART with FLEXIBLE VIEW.
 to be CALM and NATURAL,
 just the way I am.

...This is one of  MY GOALs, as a human and a composer.

The only one thing I can do now is,
 to do my best,
 studying about HUMANS and MUSIC,
 thinking well,
 always holding the gratitude to God in my heart.
 every day.
 
Irma  - composer, arranger, modern classical artist (pianist,vocalist)

=  A COMPOSER =

For me, Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was THE GREATEST OF ALL COMPOSERS.

Maybe, so many people think that other composers, such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Johan Sebastian Bach or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, are much greater than him.

Because he was always only concentrated on PIANO and he didn't compose a symphony.

So natural.
ALWAYS TRUE TO HIMSELF.
That was Frederic Chopin.

We can feel two sites of his personality,
an eternal dreamer with sensitivity and a man with strong wish.

When he expressed his courage to live,
he used peculiar rhythms, rich harmonies and spirit from Polish folklore.

Naturally, he arranged Polish musical influences in his own way.
That made his music UNIVERSAL, not like an imitation of folklore.

His musical language to express his sensitive feeling was very original.
He invented a lot of NEW WAYS OF LANGUAGE, ONLY USING PIANO.

After he left Poland, he lived in Paris for many years.
He had been feeling French sofisticated culture,
listening to French language, with his ears for originally speaking Polish language.

He saw completely different sites of Paris and French culture.
that French people never saw, I think.

This was maybe why he was a genius,
          and he was a stranger in that country.
His days, with mysterious and unexpected events.
But, an inspiration always came from an endless love for his mother country Poland.

THIS UNIQUE SURROUNDINGS MADE HIS CHARACTER MORE DISTINCTIVE.

"Necessity is the mother of invention!"

He needed to invent NEW MUSIC,
               to EXPRESS HIM EXACTLY.

Although he was also a virtuoso pianist, he did less than fifty concerts for all of his life.  He tried to use his time only for composing in a country village.

His sad and unsatisfied feeling gave him huge passion.

He was a genuine composer.

The WAY OF HIS LIFE.
HIS MUSIC.

SO FOCUSED!

Irma - composer, arranger, modern classical artist (pianist,vocalist)

©2008 Oceano Music

- A Journey into Myself -

The best thing that I like to do is:

       "A journey into Myself"

Everyday, I do this journey - to compose, to write articles, stories, poems and so on.

For me, this journey is the most interesting thing in my life and I can't find any other thing that I could feel more joyful than this journey.

I often try feeling other person's journey into himself or herself.

I start to play Chopin's Piano Concerto.

I start to play Schubert's Piano Sonata.

I've already visited their interior world through these pieces dozens of times, but I still can find out new ways of thinking, and the new ways of vision.

I start traveling inside me.

I start traveling inside of  mentors.

Then I start traveling inside me again.

This long journey,

I don't know exactly where it will lead, where I will go.

Probably, the destination is not so important in this case. The most important thing is "the journey itself."

Irma - Composer, Arranger, Modern Classical Artist

©2008 Oceano Music

I 'm feeling so happy!!

I accepted Certificate of Achievement from 11th Annual UNISONG International Songwriting Contest, for my song "Per Dove?" (song and lyrics by Irma / track 14 of my latest album) placing as Honorable Mention finalist!! ♥

I thank all of my fans, friends and family.

Irma - Bossa Mediterrânea NUOVA

To buy my latest album

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A Diary of "Una Traviata"

      -Time Trip to Another World ( 1 )

I don't know why. But classical music in the 19th century bring me to the most comfortable world, anytime, anywhere. I can feel so comfortable
after I use all of my consciousness concentrating on music and feeling together with the something in the upper world.

Those many hide deep pathos in a background, and are drawing yearning to the light on heavens. There is a strong huge light in the upper one.
It is probably the God , or the creation Lord. In other words, "the origin of all the consciousness. "

I hadn't been interested with these types of things, such as miracles, the wonder of the world or many others. Even about fortune-telling, still now I don't trust in it.

However, my view changed in the past several months. I thought that "the world of  consciousness" exists to be sure.

While I was playing and singing in a certain concert, it was devoted, and is alike before long and there is time to lose. I couldn't recognize  anything even where I was, what was I doing.  However, the sound of piano that I was playing and the voice that I was singing, only the music was so clear for me. Audiences's surrounding signs and surrounding small noises were very far from me.

Does anyone think am I crazy or stupid?

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Irma - Bossa Mediterrânea NUOVA

©2007 Oceano Music

A Diary of "Una Traviata".

                 - Viennese Waltz, Mazurka

                and Samba of Rio de Janeiro (2) -

At that time, I loved mainly "the world of  Mozart".  During when my heart was dancing with his music,  I  felt something from the human community upwards further. Therefore, the scent of the pain in reality was seldom felt.  I only felt  pureness.

However, Chopin's music is filled  to remainder at pathos of a soul. I feel the unsolvable pathetic feeling which exists in the back side, and it appears even at his splendid polonaise in a major key.

The occurrence of the heart in which he himself felt in his life was expressed as it was in many cases in his music.

He left  Poland at the age of nineteen. Although he was always worrying about his homeland, he was never able to return there. There were also another reason that he himself was a person who was able to feel and to think about everything very deeply.  His music tone might be influenced by his personality also, I think. Further this sensivility of him made his skills for expressing so well.

It's very bright in the surface. However, the heart of deep pathos is hidden in the back side. Since there is unsolvable pathos, the brightness currently made in order to make itself fine looks nice particularly.

In fact,  this is the soul same  as "samba".

Since I've already had the experience of the same type of spiritualism by Chopin's music, I began my new journey to "the world of samba" so naturally.

There're also other reasons for me. Talking about rhythm, "Samba of Rio de Janeiro" has same type of sense that I've already experienced before I began to feel samba.

A Diary of  "Una Traviata".

               - Viennese Waltz, Mazurka

                    and Samba of Rio de Janeiro (1) -

When I was a baby, every day  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra came to dance with me, sleeping in the cradle. Still now I memorize so clearly that handsome face of  maestro Karajan, of the picture of  its record.

 My uncle has the music room soundproofed, with more than 10,000 records of classical music. Under the influence of him, it became a custom for me, listening records for many hours a day at the age of eight.

Still now I clearly remember that I was mainly listening to music with orchestra, such as a symphony, a concerto, and an opera.

The wonderful thing happened at the age of ten. One tune from a certain record with piano pieces of Chopin began to speak and express something toward me.

"This tune is alive!! ", I thought.

Since this experience, I came to listen to this tune  repeatedly every day.

"The grand universe exist somewhere certainly. But I don't know about it yet."    Everytime I was listening to this music, I was feeling like that.

After in a while, I came to feel that I was visiting in another world, only when I was listening to this short tune less than four minutes.

"Still now Chopin is expressing toward us something through his tune, although he had already passed away for many many years ago! "

I decided  that I would become a musician to let people know  the wonderfulness of  "music". Then  I began to research about the life of Chopin, who had created such a marverous music.

Those days, it was great pleasure for me  to read various books  about important places of his life, his homeland Poland, Paris, Nohant and Mallorca, in the 19th century.

In fact, after growing up, there was time when I can't listening to Chopin's music for a while. 

- Why?

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Irma  - Bossa Mediterrânea NUOVA

©　2007 Oceano Music