“I almost always try to play new repertoire. There is so much wonderful music out there to play, that I don’t often want to play something I’ve learned before”
Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
“I almost always try to play new repertoire. There is so much wonderful music out there to play, that I don’t often want to play something I’ve learned before”
I describe my work generally as ‘contemporary classical for the modern romantic’.
Working with musicians who connect with what you’ve written is as good as it gets for me. To hear a musician applying his or her decades of experience to your music is the greatest privilege imaginable.
I relish composing for specific performers – it always shapes the music
People need to listen to the music first and make their own minds up