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
Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
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
Singers are great. I love the voice, and there can be no better instrument to write for.
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’.
The pieces in which the spirit, notation, concept, sound, come together to make something distinctive.
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.