I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.

I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you.

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.