Perfect happiness is having written music based on content and themes that are important to me. And then to also have those ideas resonates with others. This is truly gratifying.
Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
Perfect happiness is having written music based on content and themes that are important to me. And then to also have those ideas resonates with others. This is truly gratifying.
I relish composing for specific performers – it always shapes the music
Every musician’s path is different – as a composer, classical orchestral player, singer/songwriter, they all have such different things to consider.
One positive aspect to performing not being my main source of income is that I have the luxury of being able to program less well known music that interests me – which is what ultimately led to my Philippa Schuyler recording
You need a degree of self-belief to keep going – composing is actually quite hard work.