Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
You can’t convince an audience if you aren’t convinced yourself.
Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? I wanted to play the harp when I was 5 years old, when I heard it played at a concert, but was encouraged to learn the piano first. During my teenage years in Wales, there were few opportunities that I knew of where someone…
As performers mostly of the works of dead composers, we are in a constant battle between temporality and timelessness. Music in a life performance exists in vibrations for a fleeting moment and then gone. The goal is to make these moments speak a Truth.
Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? My mother is a classical music lover. She dreamt of playing the violin in her youth but didn’t have a chance to pursue this dream. Therefore, she took all of us, her four children, to a music school in Kyiv. That’s how it all…
I want our audiences to come away from a concert feeling inspired and moved by this incredible music. If we achieve that, job done!
Stay humble as you aspire towards greatness. Take yourself out of your comfort zone. Embrace failure as an opportunity to learn and grow.
