If you would like to take your piano playing to the next level, consider writing words to your pieces and singing while you play. The 2013 Van Cliburn Piano Competition Italian silver medalist, Beatrice Rana, had a teacher who had her write lyrics to her pieces. It was an exercise in tapping into the emotional content of the piece and truly making it her own.
The human voice has so much richness and variation in expression. Singing your piano pieces can help with phrasing. There are an infinite number of phrasing options. Just singing the phrase will immediately give you information about where and how to phrase.
Try it. You never know what you might learn.
