Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they're trying to figure out how to go about it.

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

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

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

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.