I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.

It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well.

It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot by assuming that anything done on the piano can easily be done on the recorder! She helped me with technique and was just as critical about my playing as she was with her own. I think that has been one of my fortunes.

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