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

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

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.

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

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