One of the hardest abilities to achieve is undoubtedly self-listening. For a non-musician this could seem nonsense, but anyone who plays an instrument knows that to be able to focus on the performance's complexity and at the same time on self-listening, isn't to be taken for granted.

For the pianists, actually, it's a stereophonic listening, that's why I confirm the relevance of the separate hands during practicing, in order to get a perfect control.

I firmly encourage my students to record themselves, in order to attain an objectivity impossible to get during the performance. During the first step of studying it's extremely arduous to divide our attention between the difficulties and the right perception of what we are playing [...]