‘Keep on keeping on and be happy along the way. The journey isn’t always easy but it should bring you happiness.’
Max Baillie, violinist
Let curiosity be your guide
Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
Let curiosity be your guide
Getting up in the morning and knowing I still love music as much as ever
Working with musicians who connect with what you’ve written is as good as it gets for me. To hear a musician applying his or her decades of experience to your music is the greatest privilege imaginable.
It’s the collaboration with other musicians and creating something unique in the moment that inspires me.
I think success for me is being able to do rewarding projects that stimulate me both intellectually and emotionally, to collaborate with people who inspire me, and to make a difference to an audience