- Hi, I wanna start by letting people know
I have no background in music.
I am from the theater world and I've worked
with people in all different art forms.
And in the last number of years have had
the fascinating experience of intensively investing
in the music world both in the music training
and the professional world of musicians,
both orchestral and chamber.
So, I bring a sort of outsider's fresh perspective.
And the main thing I note that I want to start
with is the distinction between the narrow training
of musical skills that certainly anyone having a life
in music has already learned a good deal
about and is well, well, along the way
in learning the technical necessities
to be able to create music that is good enough
and rich enough to be the foundation of a life in music.
And then this additional set of skills that is required
to lead a fulfilling and worthwhile life in music.
And how do we introduce the balance
between those technical skills
and all the musical knowledge you must have
and capacities, and these other less easy to name,
less easy to train skills that are going to
create the quality of a life.
And my interest in exploration has been
outside of the technical, because I don't have anything
to offer the technical, but the broader range
of thinking that is going to enable you
to be creatively alive, musically exploratory,
and personally satisfied, by living a whole life
in the musical arts.
And I see that the tension between these two plays out
not only in the training of young musicians,
but in the lives of not so young musicians.
And when the work in that softer zone is well undertaken,
the results lead to a lifelong richness.