Judymay Is Listening – Yury Revich, Sticking At It

Welcome to Judy Mayer's Listening. This is the show where you tell me what's happening in your life and I listen and together we transform everything. Welcome. Welcome back. For those of you who've heard us before and welcome for the first time for those of you who are new, we are here on women's radio station supporting women's well being. I am Judy Mae Murphy and here in studio today, I'm very, very ablely assisted by our technical producer Melis and our associate producer Elspeth. And I've got a star guest, like usually people use the term star guest very, very loosely. I'm gonna leave you in suspense for about a minute while I tell you what the theme of today's show is. And then I'm gonna be introducing you to someone who I, I am really honored to call a friend. Someone who many of you, particularly if you know anything about classical music, will have heard of before. Definitely. And will be raving fans already. And if it's someone who is going to be new to you, you will be a raving fan by the end of this hour. So the theme today is sticking with it. We very often feel that we want to give up and sometimes it's okay to walk away from something when we've got what we needed out of it. If we've got certain lessons or we've realized that this isn't actually for us, but sometimes just we can get a little bit worn down and that's what we're talking about today. Is there anything in your life that's wearing you down right now? Maybe you've been in a pretty good marriage for a while, but you'd like to have that feeling that you had when you first got together. Maybe it's that you have a skill and you've plateaued on that skill and you'd like to just get even better at that and be a world's genius like our guest here today. Perhaps for you it's that you earned a certain amount of money or you made a certain dream come true and you haven't yet dreamed the dream beyond the dream. You haven't yet started to think about what else is possible. Where else can you go with this? These are all the elements that go into sticking with something. We don't stick with something just dutifully. We don't do it just because we said we would. We do it because it's enhancing our experience here on the planet. It's enabling us to go higher, letting us know that there's more, letting us know that we can grow and we can give, no matter what's happened before. And also sticking with it, when things are tough, that's another part of it. Sometimes it's tough to just keep going. I was in Vienna last week and I was performing at the UNICEF gala, the Dreamland UNICEF gala. And those of you who are regular listeners know that we also did that in London before Christmas. And the instigator and star of that is the violinist Yuri Revic. And this is who we have here in studio today. Welcome, Yuri. Thank you very much for having me today. Absolute pleasure. So with this idea of sticking with it, you've been sticking with it since you were five years old. Five years old, you had your first professional concert, is that right? That's correct, yeah. I started to play violin when I was five. Then few months later, I already performed in front of the audience and it felt great. I don't remember it extremely well, of course, but I remember the first applause I got. I still have it in my memory. It was really exciting. And, yeah, I mean, I've been doing it for many years. I'm 28 today and I'm coming also from a very long tradition in my family. My father is a violinist, my grandfather was a violinist, my great grandfather was a violinist too. So we started to play violin in the 19th century already, so basically. Yeah, but. And this was all in Moscow. Did everyone play in Moscow? Exactly. So my family comes from Moscow and, well, my great grandfather actually comes from Siberia and he played violin there in the cold and then he moved to Moscow and he became a violin teacher and he started to teach when he was, I think, 17 or 19. So you're all proteges as well? Yeah, I mean, in different things I'm a performer and he was a teacher, but he was teaching till he was 97, so he had around 78 years of teaching experience. He taught generations. Oh, my goodness, that's incredible. So really, you're kind of sticking with it generationally as well. You didn't suddenly decide, you know what, I'm going to break this chain and I'm going to go on and become a lawyer. Or were there times where you thought, I don't want to practice every day. What has your routine been since you were a child? So how often were you playing, say at the age of 5 and the age of 10, what was it like? Was it. Because I always imagine that if you're going to play something to the world class standard that you play that you have to have been up at 5 o' clock in the morning, every single morning since you were born. That's just my view of it. Is that accurate at 5:00am? No, never, ever. Except the day when I had to catch an early flight. But of course I had moment when I was a child or teenager, I didn't want to practice. I wanted to play with friends or do some other stuff. But in the end, you know, we all work towards certain goals. And for me the goal was to perform on stage and to get applause from the audience, to feel this energy I have with the people when I perform. And it is so rewarding that actually I never had any longer than maybe a couple of days of feeling that, okay, I don't want to practice anymore. Basically, I always wanted to. And I also do in my life things which I really want. I'm spoiled in this sense with myself. And if I wouldn't want to be a violinist, I wouldn't be. What do you think you would be instead? I'd be filmmaker. Oh, interesting. But I still do it as a hobby. You do? Yes. Oh, gosh. The films that you have produced in the last few years of you playing violin and lovely sort of like dramas around it and different angles and just extraordinary stuff. So back to this idea of sticking with it. So what was it like? What was your daily routine like with practicing when you were a child? Did you wait until you came home from school or did you practice before you left for school? What was it? Or did it change every day? Yeah, it was changing every day, of course, because. Well, also I was practicing in school because I was studying the sports special school which had the music as the priority subject. But sometimes I was waking up earlier, actually. Actually, right. Like 6:30am I would. It was quite early. I would wake up quite early into practice before going to school. For many years the school was really far from me. So my mom had to take me by bus, which would last one and a half hour just to get to the school and then after school, one and a half hour, back home on the bus. So my mom helped me a lot with it. Basically she quit her job and she dedicated a lot of her time for my dreams. And I mean, her dream actually was and still is the same as mine, that she likes everything, what I do and she supports me a lot. So of course with your support, it helped me to stick to it, actually. Yeah, because you felt like it wasn't just about you. So there's some interesting things in that already. The idea that when we feel like giving up, we've got to remember the people who have already invested in us. And then also just remembering what the end result is going to be, whether that is applause or money, or a certain mission or a certain ideal that that can kind of keep you going as well. I'm fascinated by this school. I didn't know this. Tell me about this special school, what's it called? It's called Central Music School in Moscow. And now it is already this city center. But during my studies it was on the renovation, so we had to go, as I said, very far. And it has musical subjects and it has also normal subjects like chemistry, physics, math. I studied all this as well, of course. And all main Russian classical musicians of last 100 years, even more than 100 years, finished the school. Those who are all around the world performing, they all kind of went there. And how many graduates would there be every year? I don't know. But it was quite special because we would need to also pass through entrance examination and they would see how talented we are, how hard working we are already as children. And yeah, I was accepted. And the children who didn't have this chance, they had the chance to pay for their studies. And then after one or two years, CN tried to stay in the school and pass examination again if they made a progress. So always the school is always given the same second chance and more chances in encouraging students to be better. That's phenomenal. It sounds a little bit like White Lodge here for ballet dancers that they initially get in and then they've got to prove themselves as they go along. And I don't know, I'm going to ask you a really cheesy question now. Do you know the TV series and the film Fame? So basically it's like a high school for the performing arts. And I'm just imagining your school as being sort of a classical version of that. And you've got people in the cafeteria standing on tables, playing violin and singing arias and all that. Of course it happened. Of course. All the dramas, all the performance, all the improvisation, everything happened in cafeteria. It brought people together. Oh wow, that sounds like a movie that needs to be made. Definitely, you should put your name on that one. So when you were then in high school, you were studying really hard. Were you also performing at the same time? Yes, of course. The good thing about the school that it is always encouraging students also to perform. The schools organizing concerts, also promoting the students to be invited to other concerts which are not organized by the school and presenting us to international promoters, also organizing international trips, performing for different people. So yeah, of Course it was a big part of it. And teachers which were teaching math and different things, their understanding did as well. And they knew that music for us is a priority and they were supporting us. And what was that like at the time, traveling abroad? Was it at a time when Russia was quite open or were there still travel restrictions? Like were you the only one in your family who got to go abroad? No, I mean after 1991 when Soviet Union broke, there's no at all any travel restrictions and it was no problem. I mean, of course there's always an issue with the visa which Russians have to get to go abroad. But the same as like for anyone else from Europe or US or Asia, they need the visa to go in Russia. So it is that way. But we never had this issue. So I mean music was always anyway outside of politics and. Oh, I love that you say that. And what was the first time you went abroad? Do you remember that? True. It was I think Finland. I played the concerto with orchestra in Helsinki, was it. Nokopia is the second biggest city and it was great actually. Great food, interesting. I tried to speak English like with metal words. And now you've got way more than two words. I love the fact that. Oh, nonsense. Now you're absolutely fluent in English and also I love the fact that English is your third language because you now are based in Vienna and I've heard you over the last week speak German a lot. 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Welcome back to Judy Mae is Listening. This is Judy Mae Murphy. You're here on WRS women's radio station supporting women's well being. And today we're talking about sticking with it, sticking at it, just getting in there and just making sure it gets done. And our world famous international superstar guest today is Yuri Revic who is a Stradivari violinist. Now I kind of knew what that meant to be a Stradivari violinist before I met you. And then I remember you giving me a really good answer on that. So just for those who don't really know what it means. What is that? Well, I play on a violin made by Antonio Stradivari in the beginning of 18th century. And it is quite unique and it's quite coasty, this expensive thing. If I wanted to buy your violin from you, if I just sort of said, yuri, give us a go, how much would it cost me to. To buy your violin? Well, it's estimated as 8 million euros. 8 million. So you need a couple of suitcases for that cash? Yes. Oh my goodness. Does that not make you nervous when you're, when you're playing it? And do you. Do you really feel a difference and hear a difference as opposed to any other great violin? It was the first days when I received it and I was a little bit scared, of course, to drop it or something happens. But then in the end of the day, it's the working tool for me. Like for other people it's a laptop or a mobile phone or a paper with a pen. For me it's a violin and I use it every day. And yeah, we're a good family together. And of course it sounds great and it's a very excellent instrument. It's like old wine, you know, it gets just better with time. That's phenomenal. And what would you say is the most important thing when you're someone who has a huge dream, because you were sharing with us before the break that you were at the school. So even when you're in high school, you were traveling abroad to do these concerts that it took a lot of effort every single day, not just playing the violin, but also going out with your mom on the bus to get to this amazing school and then home again. What would you say is important in terms of mindset? Because these days when I look at you not just performing, but also going about your day, when everybody is asking you questions right before an event. You very kindly invited me to be one of the performers at this event. And it was extraordinary to me how you just kept dealing with things one after another, that there didn't seem to be any huge exhaustion suddenly or any big kind of like blow ups of temper or anything. You just seem so steady. Do you think steadiness is important to getting things done? I think absolutely. We can get emotional, emotions are very important. But when we want to achieve success, we should be really consistent and steady. And yeah, I think just sometimes it's good to have a cold mind and just think about the goal. No matter which obstacles you'll have on the way. Everybody has obstacles, Obstacles we All have and will have. And we just have this goal in our head that we want to achieve this particular thing. And we just deal with obstacles in the most sufficient way. I love that phrase, cold mind, because I've got the most heated mind of anyone I've ever met. Like, I just find the whole time I'm either feeling just amazing or really. I'm always feeling really something, like really hurt or really excited or really whatever. But you're saying you can actually just kind of dial that down and just become efficient. Sometimes I can alert it because I'm exactly like you. I'm very emotional and my moods are very extreme. But when I work on my goal to achieve it that way. It was this event last Tuesday, and I just kept in my head, okay, whatever. Now if the questions are received completely irrelevant, if they make no sense, it's already delegated this thing three times last 10 minutes. I'm still keeping it cool. Okay, in half an hour it begins. And then if during the event something happens, I don't know, it's going well. Just I'm not gonna do any drama. We continue the finishes soon. Everybody's gonna happy event is done. The goal is achieved. So all these obstacles were just little fishes in the big ocean, actually. Wow. And it was just such a phenomenal night. So the charity that you have, Dreamland Charity, when did that come about? Trinland? I started three years ago in Vienna. We now last Tuesday, had the third concert already and we had one here in London, where Eugene also kindly took part. And basically I'm doing humanitarian work as well as musician. I've done it since I'm 18 years old. And I also started a very big campaign for autism in Austria. So we started to raise funds and awareness for autistic kids and adults and now achieved actual results where insurance and government takes care of many of this. And then I had to choose a charity at some point which I would really work closely with. And I decided for unicef and the dreamland was born. Oh, that is fantastic. I didn't know actually that you had the work that you were doing for autistic people in Vienna. My youngest sister is autistic. And also here at wrs, we have a whole show with Anna Kennedy called All Things Autism. All Things Autism. And it's just so, so phenomenal. What interested you in that in the first place? Our project is called all for Autism. And interesting for me was that I just got across of it. I have close friend who has a special Asperger syndrome. And then I was Across Autism organization in Vienna. And we just had a chat about the issues they face in Austria that the people don't know about it. There is not at all awareness about it. They no funds from government. And I was really shocked because there was kids. I mean, so many have these little differences and they can be turned into new potential or they can be really, you can help them, but always in between the age of 9 to 13, mainly. And if you don't know about it, how can you help them? And so parents must know about it. The awareness was actually the key, even more important than raising funds. So we achieved a lot of it. They started to receive calls from parents. Parents started to bring their kids to the center. There's an enormous increase in the awareness. And the results which we started to achieve as well, were really fulfilling. And do you ever find that this extraordinary work that you're doing with different charities gets in the way of the dream to be, you know, the dream that you've probably achieved already, to be the best violin player in the world? I'm not the best, but I'm still working on this dream. I am performing a lot internationally. I still have many different goals I'm working on. I'm very lucky to have friends and team who support me with my ideas and my creative ideas and my humanitarian work. So, of course, if I would have to do 100% all organization aspects, it would be impossible for me to also develop myself in my own career. But time management is extremely important and I managed to do it quite well. I think our projects are successful, but in the same time, I dedicate enough time to myself because, of course, myself is. I mean, we for ourselves are all number one people in a way. Because if we're not. If we don't love ourselves, we cannot help others. I think completely. That's something that we talk about a lot on this show. And I was watching you on social media before Christmas, and I literally was like, how can he do this? Because it seemed to me that you were. We'd done the show here and you'd already been to two different countries the week before, before performing, performed in London, and then you went off and performed somewhere else. Are there times where it gets a little bit too crazy? Yes. Well, November, December and January were extremely crazy. Traveling sometimes every day was different country and different repertoire, different music to perform. And it was crazy. But now I have a little. I have a lot of work now, but it's more in one place, which means I just have at least one country per week. And it feels like a break. Yeah, it feels like a break a little. Yeah. So I guess that's an important thing with sticking with it, sticking with any project, sticking with any mission, is to remember that some times will be crazier, but those times are going to pass and it'll get back to something more manageable. Exactly. But I mean, in my case, my crazy times were manageable as well, because I knew what is coming up, what was coming up, and I was prepared for it and managed my time in advance as well. That I was prepared as a musician and mentally, and I slept well and did different things. And the meditation, that's extremely important, I think. And because in our world, we're all in stress. I mean, it doesn't matter which job you have, you're in stress. You can have not much to do but still be in stress. Because living in big city, you have so much stress. Even living in a small town, you'll still have stress. We're 21st century. So true. Meditation is important. Absolutely. Let's go back to right after high school. So did you already have a vision for traveling internationally when you were. You were 18 when you left, or did you stay on and do other studies? I was already traveling before, but I moved to Vienna, to Austria when I was 17 and a half. Yeah, but shortly before I was 18. And yeah, I mean, I was always interested in exploring different cultures, different countries, meeting new people, creating new projects around the world. And yeah, I'm super curious person. And I guess that my job was really fulfilling it. And you and I met around that time, didn't we, for the first time? That's true. We met for the first time quite a long time ago in Hungary. I was in Hungary. That's correct. We were both performing at TEDx Pannonia. And I couldn't believe it when you started playing. I was actually walking out. I'd just done my bit. I'd just done my little TED Talk. And then you were about to start. And I had been a little bit grumpy at the time because I'd asked them for a sound check and they wouldn't give me a sound check. They said, it'll be fine, it'll be fine. Then I had to start three times because the microphones weren't working. So I was like a little bit grumpy by the end. And I was ready just to go off back to my hotel room and eat cake or whatever. And then suddenly Yuri started playing on the stage and it just changed everything. My mood went into like this Rapturous place. And I thought, who is this guy? Oh my God, he's so young. I started asking everybody, what's his name, what's his name, how old is he, where is he from? And asking loads and loads of questions. And then that's when we first met. Exactly. I remember it very well. It was a great time there. There's a nice place, like a village in the middle of nowhere. And they kind of got this amazing castle. They invited great people. It was like super, super good crowd. I remember it was really, really special, actually. It was. I remember being driven there at about midnight after my plane landed and being driven over these border crossings that didn't exist anymore. And it just, it felt like I was in a Jack Reacher novel. I was ready just for someone to jump out and do something terrible. But it was, was an extraordinary time. It really, really was amazing. Why did you choose Vienna? Vienna is capital of music. It's very nice, it's very central, it's very practical. I mean, everything is good there. I strongly recommend to everyone to visit it. Oh, me too, Me too. Absolutely. As you know, I'm completely in love with the place. And did you speak German at the time? I didn't really speak German, but I learned it. I picked it up like my English just by speaking with people, listening to the pop songs and different stuff. Yeah, I mean, I have music here. I guess it was not that difficult. But I'm lazy, so it was difficult. I'm guessing. I think that you're probably the last person in the world we could call lazy. But yeah, really interesting stuff and more right after this. Welcome to the women's radio station supporting women's well being. Women's radio station is all about diversity from opinions, career, ethnicity, education and most importantly, women's well being. 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You are here at WRS women's radio station. This is Judy Mae is listening. I'm Judy Mae Murphy and today we have in studio the world famous Stradivari violinist Juri Revic. And we are getting clues from him about how to stick with it because as he was saying, he's been at this since he was 5 years old. You're already getting the idea of just how grueling his day to day life is. I say grueling. He probably just sees it as life now at this point. But I'm imagining that even with the, you know, the cold mind that you talk about, even with just kind of taking, taking it slowly, getting things done, moving on to the next thing. I imagine there have been times where you just wondered why am I even doing this? Can you think of times when things really didn't work out and you started to. To question what was going on? Of course I had it. And the very first time, I think I was 12 or 13 and I was performing on stage, it was quite an important concert. And then in the second piece I was playing, I had a memory fail. So I almost stopped. But then I didn't improvise, I think and continued and I finished, I was really stressed. But then people said no, come on, you're just still a child. That can happen to anyone. And you continued, you didn't really break, you improvise and. But I had a super shock and actually never happened as ever again. Never happened. It will happen for sure. I mean it can happen. It happens to many, but it hasn't happened since then. But many other things like auditions or things. I was not accepted somewhere for some performance or didn't get accepted to some festival and I did many. We all musicians and actor, I mean actors, anybody as in shop business, in art industry do auditions all the time. And it's normal to be not accepted sometimes even, you know, it's not fair, you know that you're better than others. But then some. Somebody had a good connection with the jury or there's some politics behind. Of course you can't do anything about it and you're still very angry and you think why? Like why they get it and I don't. I'm better than them, but it's part of it. Some things you'll get and maybe someone else who is actually better than you want at some point. So I think it's. Life is about balance and it's normal that we have failures. So how do you deal with that disappointment? How long does it take you to overcome disappointment? Because I remember there's been times in my life where it would take me six months to get over a disappointment and now I can pretty much get it done in five minutes. And then sometimes if you're tired or you are particularly looking forward to something, it could take a couple of days to bounce back. What would you say that your bounce back Routine is long time ago. It was long, like could take weeks now when I was teenager. Now for in the last years, last five years, I would say it is not five minutes. As you, you're. You're professional in this. It's amazing. I would need, I think sometime, but it's getting shorter and shorter. I'm getting stronger and stronger as a person and mentally. And I also work on it. And I just accept things sometimes don't work as they you'd like them to work. It's completely normal. We all miss our flights, we all miss our trains. Also sometimes we shouldn't make ourselves guilty. It just happened. We learn. Well, hopefully we do learn and we don't go and make the same mistake again right afterwards. But what would you say is the key for sticking with a dream that you know? Because I know I've had several different dreams. I've had several kind of incarnations where it used to be to be. Be the best director in the world and then it was to be the best novelist in the world and then it was to be the best speaker in the world and now it's to be the best speaker poet in the world. And do you find that it's been consistently for you to be the best violinist in the world? And if so, has it changed in tone or has it changed in direction over that time? I would say I still have the same dream as I always had. Sometimes the dream is adjusting a little bit. So like details, parts of these dreams are changing. But the main dream, like I want to get there, I want to be the best. I want to actually just bring my music to as many people as possible and to have this great appreciation and share my art. What I'm working since I'm 5 years old with really with big crowds and also with my music to do different, many different other things. Things like humanitarian work, organizing charity concerts, perform for people who. To raise funds for them, for people who need our support. Sometimes a simple melody can really change the mood of a person. And then you perform, for example, you go to some hospital, you play for the kids or for adults there 20 minutes. And then they are so thankful. Some of them are crying. Thank you so much for coming to us. And you know, it makes me just really happy that with something, what I really love, what's my dream, I can also do something good for the people. I think it's a great feeling. And that's what I really love about the Dreamland Charity and the fact that you also bring together such incredible groups of performers. Such great ballet dancers. And the cellist, Brendan. What's Brendan's name? Brendan Goh, an excellent young cellist. Wonderful young cellist. And you have these incredible singers. And so how do you. How have you put that together? These just people that you. You've known over time? Or do you choose them with something in mind, thinking, oh, this will bring in these members of the public, and this will bring in something else? I think the first thing, the first thought I have in my mind when I ask artists is that if they would feed the concept. The concept is to help children, is to raise funds. The people should take part in this project. Not because they want to have publicity or something. They have to really fit, feel the urge to help with their art, with their talent, to contribute and raise something, raise funds, raise awareness. I think that's the number one priority. Then, of course, I look into who is reachable, who I can contact, whom I know already, whom I don't know yet, whom I can reach through my friends and see if they're free. And then usually if they are free on this date, when we have the Dreamland or any other project, they say, yes, actually, 99. I'd say everyone, if they had time, they said yes. And then if they didn't, then they said, can you call us next year? And then I'll just put. Book it in advance, put it in my calendar in advance. And then actually did. It was not just an excuse not to do. They then came next year. So I'm really happy that I'm managing to convince great artists to also help children. And I loved the fact that you had Ute Lemper at the Dreamland Gala before Christmas here in London. Exactly. I would already take two times part in Dreamland, once in Vienna, once in London. She flew extra from New York to London to perform at Dreamland. And I really appreciate when, of course, stars of that caliber take part in this kind of projects. And she's extremely talented. It was great to work with her. And then last week we had James Cotterill. Is that her name? James Cotterill, who is. I didn't know this at the time, and I really know it now, who is pretty much the biggest pop star in Austria. And the reaction when he walked out on stage was just phenomenal. And he's a great performer. And he was a little bit nervous about how he. How it would go down with so many classical giants on the bill. And it fitted right in, and it really brought something extra to it. I love that as well that you seem to unafraid, to experiment and try new things and try mixing different styles. Absolutely. I think there is no bad style or no bad music genre. There just can be good or bad music in any genre as well as classical, as well as pop or rap or hip hop or electro or anything else. And James is a great guy. It was the first time I met him in person, actually on that day. We stayed in touch on Instagram before and through our managers. And it was great to meet him, the great chemistry music and we might create some other music together in future. He's a great guy, of course. It's really nice also to hear his appreciation as a pop musician for classical music and of course as a classical musician as well. Appreciate a lot him as a pop musician. I think, I think that's a great thing about it. There are no boundaries. Oh, I know that the two of us were sitting in the wings listening to you guys doing your thing and just saying, how do they even do that? We were just in. And I think sometimes when you are around art that is new to you, it can just remind you of what's possible. That's true. I think we always have to keep our ears, our eyes open for our minds, actually, mainly our minds open for new things and not be afraid to try something new and not have this fear of failure. I mean, and even if you fail a first time, then you have always a second time. Just don't have fear of failure and try new things. Don't be afraid. Absolutely. So when we are, we're talking about sticking with it and, you know, keep to keep going. So it sounds as if a really important part of that is to be able to contribute beyond yourself, to make sure that, you know, when you're giving back to the kids, you're reminded that it's never just about the individual artist, that it is something bigger, that there's a bigger mission, there's a bigger reason why we're all here. Because I think these days it's very easy for people to feel isolated and to feel small and to feel that they don't matter. I think every person matters so much. And every person, each person in the world can contribute so much actually and always help somebody who needs more. And I mean, there are so many different ways. Basically you can do everything great, anything great. Like every five minutes you can use. We have technology, we have our phones, we have Internet, we can encourage somebody, we can transfer €1 to somebody. We can like post something against plastic bottles. I mean, we can do things with technology which Actually don't take so much time and you're ready to change this world to make it better. And I think music is a huge part of that for you. The fact that you know that you're. That people, you must see them every day that you perform, just absolutely transforming in front of you. They're fantastic faces changing. Maybe their bodies were tight and they're becoming more relaxed. Maybe there was kind of a dullness to their eyes and now they're really, really alive. I'd say that's a probably an incredible part of. That's the incredible part, of course, to know that I can inspire and make things better for so many people just with my music. I mean, it's not just with my music. It's actually something I work every day since I'm 5 years old and it's extremely rewarding. I'm so happy. Absolutely. That's fantastic. So after the break, we're going to be asking you about what it's like day to day. Now we're going to be asking you what your future dreams are. But before we do that, just before we go to break, what would be your one piece of advice to somebody who is feeling like it's not worth it? I'm going to give up. I think it's so important to know that the times when you think that you're not worth it or something is going wrong is going to pass. Just think a little bit ahead. In a few days you're going to just look at yourself. Maybe two days ago, come on, I just had a bad day, actually. Everything is great. Just think of future. Know that bad times pass and the good times always come. Oh, that's phenomenal. Yeah. This idea that you're not having a bad life, you're just having a bad couple of days or maybe even a bad season and that this too, and this is completely normal. We all have it. It's not that. It's not just you having bad moments. We all sometimes have our bad moment. It's horrible. I just love that. I love that you're sharing that. That even Yuri Revic has his bad moments and then he recovers and he gets back on the road. And we're going to be back with you right after these welcome to the women's radio station supporting women's well being. Women's radio station is all about diversity from opinions, career, ethnicity, education and most importantly, women's well being. 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Because it's just so fascinating, everything that we're hearing from our wonderful star guest, Yuri Revit, who is a Stradivari violinist and also an extraordinary entrepreneur, and has an incredible charity called Dreamland. And where are you looking at Dreamland going next, Yuri? Oh, many places, actually. We got so much interest from Germany as well, and from Italy, we have a very big project. We're going to bring Dreamland to Rome and it's going to happen in Colosseo, in the legendary location, of course. Oh, my gosh, that is crazy good. And it's gonna happen in May 2021, and before that, in December, I think beginning of December, we'll have again a Christmas Dreamland in London, which I'm very excited about. We're gonna start working on it very soon. And so if people follow you on social media, then they're going to hear about these amazing things coming up. So what's the best way for people to follow you? Well, Instagram or Facebook. Great. So Instagram is just. Is it Yuri Revic? Yuri Revic. Exactly. Y U R Y R E V I C H Excellent. There are a few other accounts which is not me. I mean, that is a sign of fan accounts and stuff like this. But there is one which is mine. You'll recognize it. And I'm also always very happy to speak directly to my fans and to my audience, to my friends, to my supporters, and reply. So I've seen you do that before concerts. There was a wonderful concert in London in November. Was it with the London Fire? So it was the Firebird Orchestra. And what was it that you were playing at? That. Because that seems to me to be extraordinarily difficult music that you were playing. Actually, yes. Speaking of dreams, that was another goal which I achieved because since I was child, I always dreamt of being able to play 24 caprices by Niccolo Paganini, who was an extremely great virtuoso of his time, of the 19th, beginning of the 19th century. And these pieces are considered as the most difficult things a violinist can ever perform. And usually they play one or two in a concert and then they need to break few months to learn next ones. And I played all 24 of them in one concert. And I also extra rearranged it with a big orchestra, so it was extra. Also my debut as a composer. So in the same night, I basically achieved my two goals to have my debuts composer to perform all 24 in one concert. I was extremely happy. And speaking of obstacles, by the way, the week before I fell off e scooter, I remember this. And you had hurt your wrist, right? Exactly. And I hurt my everything, actually. And doctors told me three weeks, no violin. I said, that's impossible. There is a thing I was looking forward all my life, it's happening in one week. And then I just did everything. I was like, doing whatever I was, Whatever stuff I could do, injections, this, this. But mainly it was moral, like myself. I was convincing myself, I'm gonna get better. And I was able to play. I played it and it was so, so phenomenal. And what was amazing was that after that you came out and you mixed with everybody. Lots of your fans were there and you had time to listen to everybody. And you didn't just sort of say, hello, sign something and run away. You actually gave everybody time and saw everybody. And I knew a lot of people's names. And that's just lovely. Yeah, I mean, it's actually very genuine because I appreciate it a lot. There's so many musicians, there's so many events to go, and I really appreciate that. My supporters, they always follow me. They come to my concerts, buy tickets, listen to my music. And I really enjoy also this exchange of energies after the concert with an audience. You know, I give them so much during the concert and they give me back it afterwards with their emotions and their feedback. It's really beautiful feeling. And there's another place that people can see you at work, and that is on YouTube, of course, YouTube. And a lot of people have put concerts of yours up there. And I really love when you do things by. Is it. Is it Vivaldi? Vivaldi. Vivaldi. Four Seasons. It's one of the albums I recorded. And it's very nice music video on YouTube where I play the violin under the rock rain. So feel free to check it out. It was fun filming it. I remember as well, because I've got to confess, and I hope you're going to be okay with this. I illegally downloaded something from YouTube of yours, and it was extraordinary. It was somewhere in Russia, because you were speaking Russian, and there was this woman who got up and she did this thing beforehand. But it was the most extraordinary piece of music because it was. It was classical music, but it was modern classical music. It was Like Astor Pizzola, he was number actually the world's most famous Argentinian tango composer. So it was a tango music. It's classical tango and it is extremely passionate. Actually, right before coming to the studios, in the phone as my manager. And we planned this Tour next year, 2021, with this music, with tango music. Hopefully we come to England as well. Oh, fantastic. And do you think you'll be in Buenos Aires? You could go to Iceland, that's for sure. On my to do list. I must. Before the tour, I must go there and just listen to the tango in the original. I'm gonna show up because I actually trained in tango dance for about four years in Ireland and quite, quite recently, up until about five years ago. And I was just a nut for it. So every single night for two hours, Monday to Friday, right the way through for. For three and a half, four years. It's a very empowering dance, actually. And it's very freeing because there's also an improvised element to it. And there is like, the history is so, so rich. So what other areas of music are you looking forward to exploring in the next few years? For sure. Electronic pop. I really like electronic pop dance music. And I like the really. Actually the mathematical aspect of it. When I'm in front of my computer and I have the logic or Ableton especially, I use logic when I compose and I have all these lines and all these colors and the shims and elements I put together, and I have to really, like, use my mathematical part and rational part of the brain to create the track. And I enjoy it a lot. And it's a lot of fun. Of course, when it's ready and I can play it for my friends and we'll dance with it. It's cool. Oh, wow, that's phenomenal. I can't wait for that to happen. And with all these different things that you have coming up, is there a part of you that sort of thinks, oh, am I missing out on real life? Because as you know, I live a crazy life as well. I'm always traveling and doing things and meeting people. And I didn't do the traditional settle down, have kids kind of route. Do you ever think that you will do that? Do you ever think that you'll end up in one place and have a particular routine and. Or will you do that when you're in your house? I never say no to anything. Absolutely. And I just go with the flow. And I work, as we spoke before, I have couple of goals, couple of dreams. I'm working towards them. But what's happening on the way? I don't know. Maybe at some point I will change a little bit the strategy and settle down for a while somewhere. Why not? I'm thinking about going to New York for two years, but still I'd be traveling a lot, of course, but to change the base, explore new things, it's very important. And of course, also settling down maybe with the family at some point is also something very beautiful and. But it should come in the right moment. Some people, it comes already when they're 19 and 20. To some people it comes when they're 65, 70. I mean, they find their love of their life, they get married. And that's what happened to Charlie Chaplin. He ended up like well into his 60s before he. It's better late than never. This is so true. Do you find that there are people that you've met along the way who haven't stuck with it, who have decided that, you know, that it's just too much? And what's happened with those people? Yeah, of course. And it was some musicians who are not really my schoolmates or a couple of my colleagues from Vienna Conservatory. They didn't go on playing. It was just a very big disappointment for all of us because they are so talented and they would just need to invest a little bit of more patience in what they are doing and wait a bit more and not to give up so quickly on their dreams and their goals. And with many of them, I still. It was the wrong. I think it was the wrong decision because they just didn't invest enough of their will in it. And some of them get it, ended up frustrated and they want to come back to music and. But then they don't know what to do. So I think it's really important to understand what you really want. And if you really want, you know that you want it. So then you just keep working in it. So that's really interesting. So what I'm hearing you say is that sometimes it's good to just stick with it anyway. Because sticking with it and just getting through can be easier than giving up and then trying to get back in. Absolutely. Because we know that it's our dream, we know that's what we want. And sometimes we get distractions or we get a little bit depressed or sad or something like this. And it's normal. And it doesn't mean that we don't have this dream anymore. We don't want to achieve it or we can't achieve it. It's just exactly. Just few of the Bad days or bad weeks even. I mean, some artists had bad years and then they are still creating. They're going through difficult times. It actually influenced even somehow positively what they're doing. It made them stronger. And then after this bad period, they just kind of took off with their talent and their abilities. It worked. Worked out. This is so true. I've heard of artists who had a really great run for maybe a couple of decades, and then they had a whole decade where nobody would book them, nobody would produce their albums. And then after that, they just took off again and had that patience. What's that? Cher, for example. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, completely. So what do you think the importance of patience is? Patience is extremely important. And as well, it's extremely difficult. We all are sometimes impatient also in this modern world where everything should be done quickly, in five seconds, five minutes, do this, do that, run here, run there. We have airplanes, we have this technology. Patience is important. Sometimes we need also time for ourselves. We need to understand exactly where are we going, what are we doing, what maybe shall we not do what. We should just concentrate on one thing for these next few weeks and then again come back to another thing. And I think reflecting on ourselves is extremely important. And by reflecting, we train patients as well. This is absolutely phenomenal. I think that you can add philosopher to your list of accomplishments there. It's just been such an honor to have Yuri Revic here in studio with us today. And please do follow him on social media, check out his incredible stuff on YouTube and even more importantly, find out where he is live. He will be. Just given the way the man lives, he will be near you somewhere performing very, very soon. So. So, Yuri, thank you so much. If you've got one last thing that you'd like to say to people on the whole theme of sticking with it, what would that be? I think there are so many things. And just one thing, I'll just repeat that. Remember that you're the number one priority for yourself and don't give up. 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