Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
You need a degree of self-belief to keep going – composing is actually quite hard work.
My pieces have tended to be dramatic, atmospheric, multi-tonal, quirky… nothing is set so I am compositionally flexible!
The greatest challenge is to have a career as a composer!
My composing method varies piece by piece and the challenge is staying open and not judging how it wants to present itself.
I love the idea that there is no art without resistance from the medium, there are always boundaries to push against especially with a commission. The instrumentation, the style, the budget, the desires of the people you are working with, but all of these constraints force you into a place of creativity which you may never have thought of otherwise.
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