I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.

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

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

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