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freedom that I feel when I paint . . . it’s unique. I need it like air! But I try to find time. Sometimes I paint in hotel rooms, or in the planes I paint in my iPad. I’m actually doing an exhibition of my paintings during the Gilmore Festival this coming April and May. I’m sending all of my paintings from Italy to Michigan, so that’s exciting. It’s a big thing for me.
DH: Do you find any intersection between your music and your painting?
IF: Discovering the possibility of having another way of expression took a bit of the pressure away from the music. Also, I’m not reproducing something that someone else did, but I’m doing it myself from scratch. This kind of experimenting and improvisation I don’t do in music,
unfortunately. I didn’t have that training as a musician. Discovering the painting gave me this possibility, this freedom of improvising. It somehow enriched my musical expression, as well, because I try to reproduce in the piano the feeling that I have when I paint.
DH: What is it like to collaborate and play with your husband, clarinetist Anton Dressler?
IF: We’ve been together for all our lives, more than 22 years, and we have played since the very beginning togeth- er. It’s kind of an extension of your own self after a while! Music is a mirror of who we are deep inside, and through music, you can understand so many things about the other person. You establish another level of communication. It’s very revealing, knowing each other more and more.
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