‘Talk up to audiences. Make everything authentically and unapologetically rich, complex, mysterious, tentacular, extraordinary, a little intimidating, perhaps, but ultimately more seductive because of that.’
Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
‘Talk up to audiences. Make everything authentically and unapologetically rich, complex, mysterious, tentacular, extraordinary, a little intimidating, perhaps, but ultimately more seductive because of that.’
‘Find ways to make music with other people at every opportunity’
‘My main responsibility as a composer is to ensure my work can stand on its own, independent of my presence.’
‘The longer I work the more I appreciate the relationships that I have cultivated and how so many have enriched my life’
‘You have to find meaning in a series of dots and dashes, written on a page by someone, often hundreds of years ago’