‘Having the freedom to choose your own projects and the confidence to be able to give all of yourself to them.’
Matthew Peter Gough, composer
‘Having a picnic in a beautiful ‘piano field’ by a river with those I love.’
Zeju Fan, pianist
‘The ability to return to the piano and turn an experience I cannot explain in words into music’
Angeline Bell, composer
‘Music education should be seen not as an optional extra but essential for mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.’
Anna Patalong, soprano
‘f one person leaves the audience feeling changed in some way, that’s success as a musician’
Renell Shaw, composer
‘We need to make the concert hall feel less like a place of permission and more like a place where human experience can happen.’
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