I hear the alarm! I get up without delay, because I know that I have exactly half an hour to get ready. I thank the Universe for giving me another day! I put on my headphones and start.

Coffee in hand and music. I love to go out so I avoid or limit media as much as possible – this may be my only opportunity to “exercise” in a day! As well as a chance to learn the songs and learn the lyrics, as well as imagine being “weird” humming in the street. I photograph the sky, the clouds, the sun, any character on the street that impresses or inspires me. I go to school!

This is the hours I am in elementary school as a music teacher. The program includes a lot. However, for some reason, perhaps innate, most children love to sing! It is a form of relaxation, an opportunity to take your mind off paper and pencil. I love to encourage all children to sing, especially those who are not confident! During breaks, when I am on duty, I watch the children. They are full of life and carelessness. Even from there you can draw inspiration. That’s how I wrote my last song “Hidden”. I heard every day in between: “5, 10, 15. 20, 25 … damn it, I’m going out!”

Piano lessons at the school conservatory! It’s great magic when you take a child who can’t even put his hands on the piano and after a while you hear him play his first piece. Every level is different, just like every child. We study different composers. I like to address their lives first before we play their notes. Students love it too. It’s like a fairy tale, and what child doesn’t love fairy tales? In my free time, I mostly eat sweets! And I play the piano in everything that gets in my way. Through improvisation, new melodies are born, ideas that I then take home and complete – at least some of them!

Return road. As I walk the same route, the sky changes color, the people on the road are different, and I capture moments with my mobile phone in hand. The city and people always inspire me. After all, the album that I am preparing is on this topic and not by chance!

I’ll eat, rest, and maybe get some sleep.

“Magic is beautiful when you take a child who doesn’t even know how to put his hands on the piano and after a while you hear him play his first piece.”

The options change depending on the day, but this is probably my most creative time. While I’m working on my album, I often have a studio or work on some ideas alone in my home studio. I open the piano and Cubase and start. First I record the piano, and then I start the orchestration – my favorite part – in my own way. I think about what musical instruments I would like to see in the piece and what role each of them plays. I will also learn to play the violin or go out with my girlfriends! It’s also the hours I set aside for rehearsals with my band!

At this time of the day I prefer classical music, it helps me relax! I am reading a few pages from “Where Crayfish Sing” – a gift from one of my students.

Preparing for the next day! I write down almost everything so I don’t forget anything and manage my time with less stress! The goal of each day is to narrow it down, ideally eliminate it, and leave only “creative stress” and the essence of what the day brings. I pack my bag and go to the closet for tomorrow’s outfit. I really love fashion and follow it as much as it suits me. Even dressing is an art. The choice of color, combination, fabric…

One step to sleep! I really need him, and we have a very good relationship! I turn on relaxing music and close my eyes. I think of 10 things of the day that I am grateful for and usually by 7 I am fast asleep!

I dream, I wake up – I cross over to the other side, I dream again …

Musician and performer Eleonora Manona recently released her first song for children called “Hidden” in collaboration with Manoli Famello, Maria Papageorgiou and Stathis Drogosis.