Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? I grew up with music of all kinds, but Radio 3 was nearly always
Category: Interview
Barbara Arens, composer
Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? My career in music came first: as a harpsichordist and
Music@Menlo at Meet the Artist
To coincide with this year’s Music@Menlo festival, an internationally acclaimed chamber music festival in the San Francisco Bay Area, founded by David Finckel and Wu
Daniel Elms, composer
For composition, subconscious processing is one of your most powerful tools, as long as you “feed it” with tasks to process: don’t wait for inspiration, instead confront the empty page and work on it; put the time in. Even if you discard everything by the end of the day, it is the process that stimulates the subconscious and you’ll find that inspiration follows.
Thomas Farnon, composer
Trust your instincts – I think the only way you’ll ever come up with something truly original is to be instinctive and experiment – and write lots and lots of music.
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