Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and pursue a career in music? I started piano lessons when I was 8. My
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Luke Navin, composer
Singers are great. I love the voice, and there can be no better instrument to write for.
Francis Pott, composer & pianist
The sense that people you respect and care about are straining every sinew for the sake of your compositional efforts and their realisation is a uniquely humbling experience. At times it has made the music seem to stare back at me, externalised and somehow become ‘other’.
Paul Burnell, composer
The pieces in which the spirit, notation, concept, sound, come together to make something distinctive.
Keith Burstein, composer
I think a turning point came when I discovered Mahler at age 16, that’s when I understood what music can be more fully than before.
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, composer
I heard a ‘cello being played on the radio (I can’t remember who was playing) when I was about 6, and just knew that was the instrument I had to play. I fully intended to just become an internationally famous concert ‘cellist (as you do!) but gradually composing took over.
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