Who or what were the most significant influences on your musical life and career as a composer? That would have to be some combination of the Beatles, the Allman Brothers, Blood Sweat and Tears, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Sessions, Carter, Weinberg and Perle. And somewhere along the way Heinrich Schenker (through studies with Carl Schachter) had…
Category: Interview
Yuki Negishi, pianist
I try to give my all for each performance so it really doesn’t matter where I play – each concert leaves me with things to improve
Emma Knights, musician
be true to the music you want to make and the work you want to do
Boris Bizjak, flautist
Concerts themselves give me inspiration. The more concerts you get, the more inspirational it is
Seljan Nasibli, soprano
“if I can provide a comfort, can convey and give emotion and move an audience, I would consider that a success”
Luis Toscano, musical director of Cupertinos
Who or what have been the most important influences on your musical life and career? In one way or another, all of the singers in Cupertinos have had our initial contact and experiences with the choral world in informal or amateur contexts, during our childhood years. There is a very rich and well established amateur…
