What has been the highlight
of your career so far?
Conducting a Gala Concert at
Covent Garden in which the Bach Choir sang ‘Belshazzar’s Feast, the Prince of Wales
joining the Choir in ‘Zadok the Priest’.
When are you happiest?
When
I’m with my family on holiday. It’s the only time I don’t work.
What is your greatest fear?
Being
stranded on a desert island without music.
What is your earliest musical
memory?
Playing
the theme tune to Z Cars on the piano to aged great aunts and grandmother when
I was three. I was equally baffled as to why I could do it!
Which living person do you
most admire, and why?
Mariss
Jansons: He is the greatest orchestral trainer living with impeccable ears.
If you were an animal what
would you be?
I’ve
always wished to be taller so a giraffe would be good.
What is your guiltiest
pleasure?
Eating
chocolate bars by myself in the car.
How do you relax away from
the concert platform?
I
enjoy cooking, drawing and reading.
What do you consider your
greatest achievement?
It was
a long time ago but the first disc for Hyperion we recorded with Westminster
Cathedral Choir won a Gramophone Award much to my surprise.
What is the most important
lesson life has taught you?
Humility;
the most successful people I have come in to contact with are some of the most
humble.
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