Robert K. Yosay | Posted January 10th 2011

When Thomas Solich sits at a Kawai piano and dances his fingers across its keys, prancing between octaves and tickling every sharp and flat, an almost tangible energy surrounds him.“This piano responds to me in the same way aMercedes responds to you,” he said, letting his hands wander across the ebony and ivory, almost unable to sit still when he knows the instrument is in reach.