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.
to create and be part of music I truly believe is good
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