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I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.

I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.

I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.