interviews with musicians – Page 206

Peter Manning Robinson, composer & pianist

January 13, 2018 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

Who or what inspired you to pursue a career in music? When I was three years old, my parents bought a piano for the home.

Simon Höfele, trumpet

January 9, 2018 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

It’s a great privilege to make music for a living! And it’s not all about the money, it is the passion and the pure joy which only music can bring.

I work on a project-by-project basis. I find people I love to collaborate with, and then create the projects around that. The repertoire choices will grow out of that, and of how we want to grow the programme.

Peter Ash, conductor/composer

January 1, 2018 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

I always wanted to be closer to music. Conducting was a natural extension and progression from my experience as a horn player. The challenge of trying to imagine a complex score written by someone else took this magical internal activity even further than playing one line. Perhaps the ultimate version of this is to imagine one’s own sounds.