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

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

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

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.