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The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.

It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has written. Then, even a short piece by Brahms or Chopin can be played with much more understanding.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

I've been studying voice for quite a while, especially opera, for at least seven or eight years.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?