Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics involved.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

When I was very young, Denmark was a very small country, and we still are, but it was then very provincial and everybody knew everybody. Now, we are very much like the rest of the world, especially with the arrival of the internet.

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to do something right, what one feels is right to do in the moment, and the way the audience is listening.