We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and e….

There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how much more i….

It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than perf….

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or dur….

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing..

When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically and artistically. B….

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something..