When You Set Out for Ithaca - Book launch & piano concert @St Pancras Clocktower
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"As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery." - Cavafy
'When You Set Out for Ithaca' is a memoir of pianist/author Julien. Documenting his past 10 years of soul searching journey across the world, distilled into a garden of love and pain, lost and found, abandonment and connections.
Date: Saturday, 26th July, 2025
Time: Door @2pm, Piano concert + reading begins at 2:30pm til 4pm
Venue: King's Cross St Pancras clocktower
discount code: Ithaca
The events will include live piano improvisation from professional pianist Julien, who studied under renowned pianist Prof. Yaron Rosenthal, who is the student of Murray Perriah, for 3 years in Jerusalem. His virtuoso and individual style of world-class pianoimprovisation connect audience into a heartfelt and spiritual experience. He has performed in various prestigious venues across london, and the world.
Excerpt from the book:
Will I regret it all again? Fall back into the cycle of chasing, then collapsing?
Deep inside, I know I want to wander—wander forever with music.
To play guitar and flute in response to the call of the ocean.
To sleep under the stars, in absolute peace. To withdraw from the noise completely.
Life is within.
It is immanent.
The world outside is just a projection of the mind.
If I play piano just to please the world—or serve my own ego—then what’s the point?
Why should I stay attached to something if the motive isn’t noble?
Or… should I find a nobler reason for doing it?
Or is it simply a symptom of a sick soul?
And if so—how can I heal?
You know… I haven’t been honest with myself.
Death doesn’t exist.
We are older than the sky—older than everything we think is real.
I have a dream:
To transcend this life into eternity—in the deep blue of the ocean.
Julien
When You Set Out for Ithaca - Book launch & piano concert @St Pancras Clocktower