Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
Concert music comes with a blank page and asks only what I have to say, which I find much more challenging. At the same time it is liberating in a completely different way to the constraints of film music
Who or what inspired you to take up piano, and pursue a career in music? My father started taking me to concerts and to the
Who or what inspired you to take up the cello and pursue a career in music? When I was 7 years old, my guitar teacher
The nature of improvised music means that it’s very rare that everything falls together perfectly in real time, and in a way that’s not the point. There’s a Miles Davis quote where he says something like ‘I can play music all night, but there will only ever be about 8 bars where I really nail it’, and I know what he means
For me, the biggest challenge of playing music is the challenge of playing music well. There is always a gap between one’s ideal and one’s presentation of that ideal, and the challenge for me lies in the grueling, muddy, often frustrating work involved in closing this gap.
