Yokosuka New Year Concert 🎶

After five years, I found myself back on stage in my hometown.

It wasn’t a moment that could be measured by applause or by words. It was simply a time that felt full.

The people in the hall were not just an audience — many of them carried their own memories of this place. I felt surrounded by something familiar and quietly strong, like the wind from the sea and the weight of the land beneath my feet.

Before returning to Belgium, this time became a gentle recharge.Not an excitement that pushes forward, but a warmth that settles inside and stays.

The Yokosuka New Year Concert is never only about enjoyment.

Each year, the arrangements bring moments of tension — places where every musician must step forward with honesty and responsibility.

This time, I faced several moments that asked for courage rather than comfort:the sound of the shinobue in Boléro,the opening solo of Cavalleria Rusticana,a line beneath the soprano’s voice in the Brindisi.

They reminded me that music still asks me to stay awake.

Someone once said that this concert is“adults playing seriously.”

I felt the truth of that phrase deeply.

Playing with friends from long ago, hearing melodies that brought back my youth, and seeing familiar faces in the audience — it all quietly returned me to myself.

Not to who I was,but to why I continue to play.

Musicians from my Miura City (Next of Yokosuka City)

Concert in Yokohama with Marc Grauwels▶︎