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Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!

I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.