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.

My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.

You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.

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

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.