“…write music as much as possible, every day! You can never stop learning so I find the more I write the better I become”. Interview with Ian Arber who wrote the BBC Proms theme tune
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Louis Karchin, composer
Primarily that music should inspire. Whether this is through performance or composition does not matter; the principle is the same. Music should never be routine, it must always be special.
Joseph Phibbs, composer
I see my music as largely built on the classical tradition, but – hopefully – exploring new possibilities within it.
Dario Marconcini, composer
Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? I started listening to music of a “certain type” from
Dani Howard, composer
I would certainly say that a rhythmic drive features heavily in most of my work. Being almost post-minimalistic with a constantly shifting harmonic centre, I think a lot about ‘implied melodies’ where I take the function of a melody, but rather than a ‘melody’ as we think of it in old fashioned terms – I enjoy creating these ‘implied melodies’ out of harmonic ideas.
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