‘Keep on keeping on and be happy along the way. The journey isn’t always easy but it should bring you happiness.’
Asako Ogawa, pianist
‘Learning from the past is essential to shaping the future.’
Christopher Braime, conductor
‘You have to find meaning in a series of dots and dashes, written on a page by someone, often hundreds of years ago’
Rieko Makita, pianist & composer
‘I choose music that speaks to me — pieces that pull me in emotionally. I think that connection is so important because you’re going to be spending a lot of time with the piece. It’s like entering a relationship.’
Kariné Poghosyan, pianist
‘Choosing to be a musician was so intuitive and instinctive that one can almost argue it was not a choice at all’
Sarah-Jane Bradley, violist
‘All life experience adds to the diversity of emotional experience which then feeds musical expression’
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