A big thank you to Megan Westberg for the cover story
@stringsmagazine about the Blackbirds album ‘Music from the 1960s’ with my dear friends
@maxim_emelyanychev and
@thomasdunford and the
@sverigesradiossymfoniorkester @berwaldhallen .
“I grew up in a small town, in Gütersloh, where Hans Werner Henze was born. Thanks to him and the promoter Klaus Klein, there were days of new music every year, where I met György Ligeti, Wolfgang Rihm, Aribert Reimann, and Hans Werner Henze in person, and encountered the music of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Feldman. I turned pages, listened to Ligeti talking about his piano études, and heard many first performances…New music was a common thing. Thanks to these influences, I could say that music of the post-war time was something that formed my childhood —it was vital and existential.”
@alpha_classics @outheremusic @larsenstrings 
