ABSTRACT

For a lot of listeners the first contact they have with your work is through the title of course, and you seem to have a clear approach to titling pieces, whether they draw on practical descriptions of the instrumentation, or names of people and what they do. There oĞen seems to be unstated relationships between the choices, such as the nationality of people or the number of leĴers in their names (or both). Could you explain how you choose titles, and what role they have for you in relation to the music?