Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music My father. Although he had nothing to do with music (he was a street cleaner),
One thing we love about playing modern and new music is the range of experiences that the music can offer: some pieces demand an emotional response, some are more experimental or Zen, some are purely intellectual, and some are connected to the wider world (including nature, science, history, and politics). We believe we have succeeded if we can communicate some of that experience to the audience.
Be real. Either be totally yourself, or enter so fully into the performance that you become the performance.
Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? To sound a little pompous, I think the choice made itself. I never thought
The biggest challenge is to continue on your own path and not panic when there’s a blank page in your diary. It does fill up! But I sometimes feel you have to have the attitude of a gambler to work as a freelance song pianist: one day a singer cancels but the next a singer might call.
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