Percussion is something special to me, tuned and untuned. Some drums are so extensive in their possibilities of sound graduation, pitch and timbre – that I said it was like having an orchestra beneath your fingers
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Andrew James Johnson, composer & pianist
Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? Although I started playing the piano from around seven years
Helen Walker, musician & composer
Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? Almost as soon as I started to learn music I
Alexandra Harwood, composer
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
John Holland, composer, arranger & conductor
Tonal, with a hint of, ‘what just happened?’ I like raising eyebrows, but also tapping feet. Rhythm is key, and the interplay between musicians trying to keep up with it
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