Author archive: Nick Breckenfield
by Anna Meredith
For me it’s normally the impulse of the commission itself which gets the ideas starting, considering any elements the piece might involve (duration, instrumentation, occasional etc) and then a collaborative process of looking for a good creative starting point. I like to have a very clear idea of what I’m aiming for with each piece […]
by Bent Sørensen
When I moved some years ago to the countryside – an area with beautiful nature and lots of silence – a lot of the people visiting me said: “This must be very inspiring for you!”. They didn’t know what they were talking about, because that is not the way inspiration works. Inspiration is inside yourself; […]
by Nick Breckenfield
In ten years the Borletti-Buitoni Trust has honoured a veritable orchestra of musicians. By my calculation, it could have mounted a tenth birthday performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, conducted by Robin Ticciati (Fellowship 2005), if the 19 pianists, three guitarists and two harpists helped flesh out the chorus and some of the solo cellists transferred […]
by Simon Holt
I had to search for the piece to find out how long ago it was that I wrote it! 15 years! I was very surprised. The writing process is mostly a mystery to me now, but the performances that I’ve seen (all with Colin Currie playing; nobody else has taken it up, which isn’t a […]
