‘Keep on keeping on and be happy along the way. The journey isn’t always easy but it should bring you happiness.’
Eva Maria Doroszkowska, pianist
Music is not a career, it’s a vocation
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’
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