‘Music has the power to transcend boundaries. We can feel it when that happens in concerts, and that feels like success.’
Anna Patalong, soprano
‘f one person leaves the audience feeling changed in some way, that’s success as a musician’
Renell Shaw, composer
‘We need to make the concert hall feel less like a place of permission and more like a place where human experience can happen.’
Mokale Koapeng, composer
‘Obliterate elitism and be inclusive of diverse musical styles in our compositions’
Adrian Brendel, cellist
‘We need music more than ever to balance our lives healthily and inspire us to slow down sufficiently to really listen and be.’
Bruce Broughton, composer
‘Composers, like all musicians, must practice. They have to learn their craft in order to be fluent. It’s done by practicing over and over and over’
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