How do I play music with more expression?

You are skilled now. The notes are under your fingers and the technique is there. What challenges you is the demanding, expressive playing, the kind that moves people rather than just impresses them. That is a real threshold, and reaching it is less about more practice and more about a different kind of listening. Expression comes when you stop thinking about hitting the notes and start thinking about what you want to say with them. Pick a phrase and ask what feeling it carries. Play it too soft, then too loud, then rushed, then dragged, until you find the version that feels true. Technique gives you the tools; expression is deciding what to build with them. This week, take one short passage and play it as if you were telling someone something that matters. Sing it first if you have to. You are not missing talent. You are learning to let the person inside come through the instrument, and that only grows the more you dare to mean it.