🎧 #TPPSeason5Rewind | Episode 12: Ophelia Gordon

24 Jul 2025 · 3 min

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This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube episode titled "🎧 #TPPSeason5Rewind | Episode 12: Ophelia Gordon" (created 2025-07-24). The excerpt features Ophelia Gordon speaking about how music — especially the works of Nikolai Kapustin — sustained her through a difficult period and informed her album (referred to as The Masters). She discusses the emotional connection she brings to Kapustin’s structured music, the intense focus required to perform it, and how sharing her experience has resonated with listeners. The clip appears to be part of a podcast-style interview or episode centered on her artistic process and personal reflections.

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Um, so it's interesting how music, especially Kapustin, has really been there during this time as well. And, and the album is a— the album is a result of this period of my life. You know, when, when, when things happen and your life changes, sometimes there's only one thing that stays, and whatever that one thing is, that's the thing that you need to lean on. And it was my music, you know, it was the only thing that was giving me comfort. It was, it was helping me process. And, uh, it's interesting that Kapustin was that music, you know. It was, it's almost like the, the structure of his music helped made sense during a time that was complicated. You know, and the extreme focus that require— that you need to have when you play his music really helped kind of channel things for me. But, uh, I think what's interesting is that I play his music very emotionally, and it's not something that maybe you would immediately associate with Poustin if you'd only ever heard it for the first time. It's not like Rachmaninoff, you know, it's not heart on the sleeve music. Well, you wouldn't think it is, but for me it really is. For me, it's— I'm very emotionally connected to it, and it, it's carried me through some really difficult times. So yeah, sorry, it's quite heavy. No, no, no, this is a very important thing. Yeah, yeah. And I think it's, I think it's, I think it's just important to be honest and, and to Uh, you know, I accept that music is this foundation for a lot of people, you know. And, and I know it's not just me. Like, I know that since kind of sharing this story with people, there's been so many people that have reached out to me and said, I feel like I've gone through exactly the same thing, you know. Like, I could— music has been so important to me. During difficult times, and, and it can be really life-changing. So yeah, so The Masters was kind of a result, I feel, you know, the, the album. It's all— it all kind of came so organically during such difficult time. So yeah, I think, I think I just have to— that's why I thought I'm just going to follow this and just see, see what happens, like not be tethered to an outcome. You know, not kind of have any huge expectation of