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

Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible.

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

It is not very natural to make dynamic changes with the recorder. When you play a long note and want to make a diminuendo, the pitch will fall, and vice versa. So you need to adjust these with your fingers.

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 think that today, in Europe at least, people don't tend to think so much about the instrument that is producing the music; they are more interested to see if the musician actually has something to say.

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