Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young com….

Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give them a co….

Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess..

I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in….

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity..

The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exc….

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt..

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact w….

I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum without the contemporary wing. ….

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is..

Conducting was just something that happened by fluke..

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something ….

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other..

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting..

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear y….

We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical is not….

I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things..

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course..

You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the ….

Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music,….

We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and a….