It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

Craft is part of the creative process.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.