Erwähnen / Mention Geige / Violin Geschrieben / Written Heilig / Sacred Kammer / Chamber Klavier / Piano Mozart Musik / Music Oper / Opera Seine / His Symphonie / Symphony
I have written symphonic poems and chamber music. It is my way of personal expression.
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.
I started directing chamber orchestras, then adding bigger pieces, adding winds, adding small symphonies. I've always loved chamber music, and I've done a lot.
The most rewarding thing for someone like me is for someone else to find solace through my music.
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
