Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? Nothing was planned, really. Spontaneously, one day I wondered what it would be like
Tag: interviews with composers
Christopher Willis, composer
Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? I can hardly remember not being drawn to music. I
Gavin Luke, pianist & composer
Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? I’ve always had an innate attraction to music. My mother
Alexey Shor, composer
Whether a piece is commissioned or not, the challenge is always the same: to write something that I feel I would enjoy listening to as an audience member. A lot of music gets discarded because it does not pass that test.
Michael Sheppard, pianist & composer
Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? That’s sort of difficult to answer, since I have been playing the piano for
