Leila Josefowicz Quotes

You’re playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they’d make me older.

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

I suppose that’s why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

It’s nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I’m done, that will be truly exciting.