To keep writing music true to myself despite fashions and the world changing.
Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
To keep writing music true to myself despite fashions and the world changing.
Music is a language and each performer views music through the possibilities of their instrument and technique; I enjoy having conversations about how best something should be played as there are often possibilities I wasn’t even aware of, and that is exciting.
have faith in one’s own talent and power, and patience
I find that I need to be in the process of organising, listening to and editing music before my favourite ideas come to me. I like to build up a collection that I can work off over a period of time; putting some on the backburner and coming back to others that I maybe left for a while as they weren’t working.
Probably the best piece of advice I was given was “Never let anyone tell you what to do with your art”.