Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
Be interested and interesting. Don’t sit back and wait for commissions to come to you, make your own opportunities.
Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and pursue a career in music? My three great professors : Roger-Ducasse, Nadia Boulanger, Louis
I feel that modern classical performers (myself included) should be encouraged to reconquer skills from the golden romantic age such as improvisation, spontaneity and freedom of expression. That is the (retrospective) future of classical music in my humble opinion.
Never think purely in terms of your own instrument. If you are learning music by a particular composer listen to as much of their music as you can (Symphonies, Lieder, Opera, Chamber music), and then listen to the music that influenced them.
Who or what inspired you to take up the flute and pursue a career in music? My parents aren’t musicians so those who inspired me have been my music teachers in Montepulciano (Siena
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