I had a good career as a young pianist around ten years ago, performing in several venues and winning some local competition. This came to a halt when I had to stop due to severe back pain that made it impossible for me to practice at the piano. I managed to take the Music School Diploma in Piano Performance (with 10/10 *cum laude*) and then I had to stop playing, taking a different career path. Long story short, in September this year, around ten years later, I managed to solve my back issues. I prepared a new repertoire and going to perform in a music venue in my current town. It is a small venue, and I am going to share the evening with a clarinetist (we are both playing solo, I am the headliner). I am playing in the UK. I was preparing a little leaflets with my biography. My biography is short because: a) I live in a different country then the past, and mentioning the places I played ten years ago would not mean anything to the people here b) I won mostly local competition that are probably meaningless to people here. c) I didn't play for the ten years after the diploma, important years for getting stuff done. So in my short biography I briefly mention that I perform in several venue and won several competitions without any detail, then I say that I graduated in 2008. At this point, **should I mention that I stopped playing the piano due to health issue connected with piano playing? And that this is my first concert in 10 years? How would this come across?** It goes without saying that I am really proud about my story and I would like to share it. But people may think that I am bragging or getting too personal. Maybe people don't want to hear "excuses" about why I stopped playing for 10 years. So.. how would this come across? Should I just not mention anything and ignore the fact that last entry in my biography is from 2008? Thank you.