I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum without the contemporary wing. For a young cutting-edge person, why would you get into that sort of business, which is very clearly geared towards dead or almost dead people?

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