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My wish list...
My dearest wish is to see the musical world change and become more deeply authentic. A musician
should be allowed to work in the service of the art of music. I am not alone in deploring the many forces which today
inhibit the flowering of genuine artistic personalities. What I mean, in particular, is the power of market-dictated
rules over concert organizers and over audiences. I am convinced that a “true” artist makes an infinitely greater
impact than a market-oriented one.
We often hear a performer being accused of “paleness” or, at the other end of the scale, of "eccentricity". I believe
that this too is generated – not always consciously on the part of the artist – by the demands of the market: you
mustn’t disturb, you must try to be “impersonal” – in other words, easily digestible – or else you need to “startle”
or "shake up" the audience.
But it seems to me that the best way to establish contact with your audience is to be absolutely sincere in
transmitting your own deeply-felt experience of life, to communicate your never-ending search for the composer whose
work you are playing…
and for your own self. And so my wish is that tomorrow’s world of music should rid itself of everything superfluous
and alien to art. It should allow young performers to dedicate themselves to the search for authenticity, making this
the priority destination of their artistic voyage.
