Happy new year to all my colleagues, friends and students who have been following this blog and visiting this website. I am looking forward to an exciting year of new achivements in teaching, performing, conducting and arranging/composing. But more than anything else, let there be lots of enjoyment in the arts and in the company and interaction with intellingent, creative beings! I would like therefore to start this year's blog with a quotation from a poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson, "In Memoriam A.H.H"

Let knowledge grow from more to more,
But more of reverence in us dwell;
That mind and soul, according well,
May make one music as before,

But vaster.