Don’t just do music!
Have other serious interests – take risks – don’t follow the path you think you should but the one you want (it’s the one you’ll take more seriously) – be able to talk to all sorts of people – listen and learn.
Tag: interviews with composers
Luke Navin, composer
Singers are great. I love the voice, and there can be no better instrument to write for.
Francis Pott, composer & pianist
The sense that people you respect and care about are straining every sinew for the sake of your compositional efforts and their realisation is a uniquely humbling experience. At times it has made the music seem to stare back at me, externalised and somehow become ‘other’.
Stephen Marquiss, pianist & composer
Remember that art and life are an interweaving dance, and that one informs and inspires the other. Develop an instinct for which sacrifices are truly worth making and which risks are worth taking.
Paul Burnell, composer
The pieces in which the spirit, notation, concept, sound, come together to make something distinctive.
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