I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.