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

I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.