Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? I was brought up in a musical family. Although my father was a bank manager, he nearly became a professional musician when he was younger. In his spare time, he played the viola and conducted choirs. My mother was a…
Author: The Cross-Eyed Pianist
Pianist, writer, music and arts reviewer, and blogger on classical music and pianism
Nicola Meecham, pianist
Be true to yourself and plough your own furrow. A musician’s career path is often a lonely and frustrating one so you need to maintain self-belief
Rami Bar-Niv, pianist & composer
for me any performance is a performance
Nicolas Dautricourt, violinist
Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? Many things and many people have inspired me, and sometimes they are very different from each other. Throughout life should we cultivate what we have, or should we try to acquire what we DON’T have? It’s a crucial question and I think that somehow,…
Belinda Sykes, oboist, singer & director of Joglaresa
Society tells you it’s whether you can make a living as a musician, but my definition of success is about being strong enough to try and do the music you want to do
Matias Piegari, composer
One special challenge of film music is understanding that each score is completely different from another. Every director will have a different point of view of what they want, so the process of figuring out what is it that they need will always be different. Filmmakers very rarely speak in musical terms. They communicate with feelings and emotions, so it is my job to figure out how to put those emotions into musical sounds to meet their vision.
