Be yourself: you are unique, and your set of experiences and perspectives are what inform your music.
Interviews with musicians, composers and conductors
Be yourself: you are unique, and your set of experiences and perspectives are what inform your music.
Who or what inspired you to take up composing, and pursue a career in music? Big question. Many people, many things inspired me. Great pianists
I think people are collectively much more in an upbeat mood on a Friday evening compared to Monday so it’s important I don’t ‘offend’ them with a 250BPM aggressive bebop track on a Monday evening, for example!
Listen to as many records as possible, develop a massive sound vocabulary, and learn to interact with the musicians you are onstage with.
inspire, upset, amuse, collaborate, define, create, comfort, be playful, disciplined – and leave an audience feeling something – anything, they may not have felt before