‘Keep on keeping on and be happy along the way. The journey isn’t always easy but it should bring you happiness.’
Gloria Chien, piano
Don’t be afraid to make your own path – what awaits you on the other side will be the most rewarding!
Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
Don’t be afraid to make your own path – what awaits you on the other side will be the most rewarding!
Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? I don’t really remember how exactly it started, as music has been with me
Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? I started listening to music of a “certain type” from
Who or what inspired you to take up the violin and pursue a career in music? It was my parents and their love for classical
I would certainly say that a rhythmic drive features heavily in most of my work. Being almost post-minimalistic with a constantly shifting harmonic centre, I think a lot about ‘implied melodies’ where I take the function of a melody, but rather than a ‘melody’ as we think of it in old fashioned terms – I enjoy creating these ‘implied melodies’ out of harmonic ideas.