Grace Chatto Quotes

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

Classical music can rock you!

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

I listen mostly to classical music.

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

In concertos, I stand up, and I conduct with the bow when I'm not playing. During symphonies, I sit, but sometimes I stop playing to conduct. Being seated in a section allows me to feel more like we're playing chamber music, which is how I like to approach it.