 I left my hometown, Salerno, in the south of Italy when I was a 24-year-old physics student. Then I moved to Geneva to work at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. One night I was studying and listening to the radio. It happened to be playing a Beethoven violin concert by Uta Ugi. I just fell in love with violin and I decided I wanted to learn it. Music can be played at every level, you know. It's a universal language. It requires a lot of hard work and patience, but it gives back so much more. The possibility to play in Geneva in the United Nations Orchestra is incredibly touching.