I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.