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From 'problem child' to prodigy
Updated On: 02 September, 2012 10:42 AM IST | | Kareena Gianani
Rahel Senn, 25 year-old half-Swiss-half-Singaporean, turned to the piano to deal with a difficult childhood. Next week, the award-winning child prodigy performs in Bangalore and tells Kareena N Gianani over email that she feels more understood in music than in any of the seven languages she has learned to speak in
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You are often described as an erstwhile ‘problem child’.
I was regarded as a “problem child” (smiles), but I choose to be an artiste. Music just came to me, and I was strangely very attracted to it from a very young age. We became good friends, and that is how everything got started. I believe in fate — and I was destined to be a musician.
When did you start composing music? What was your training like?
Music just came to me and things got started. I studied classical piano at the Conservatory of Lucerne, and was able to compose musicals at 17. Konstantin Lifschitz, my mentor and a very good friend, has his own interpretations of masterpieces that have become classics. He has always encouraged me to find my own musical language. And it was the language of the piano that I connected with.
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