I Love To Travel, But Sometimes It's

The Challenge Is Not So Much To Change The Sound. The Challenge Is To Connect And To Create Something Special.

I Want To Work With The Big Orchestras. I Want To Have A Big Family.

My Main Goal, And It's A Big One, Is That Every Child Has A Chance To Get Close To Music - As A Right - That As They Have Access To Food, Health, And Education, They Get The Chance To Have Art And Culture - Especially Music.

For Me To Rehearse With A Children's Orchestra A Mahler Symphony Was To Really Work. We Had Three Or Four Weeks Of Rehearsal With The Orchestra, Every Day Eight Or Nine Hours, Putting The First Together. I Had Been Conducting Tchaikovsky A Lot And Beethoven, But Mahler Was Different.

You Learn A Lot About Each Other From A Tour, Musically And Humanly.