When, where and what did you play the first time with the English Concert?

It was the first patch of my trial, unlike others I haven’t been already playing with the English Concert before being appointed or trialled.

If I am not mistaken it was a Mozart Requiem at Temple Church.

What has been your most memorable TEC concert and why?

Certainly a prom concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I wasn’t playing myself, but attended as an audience member.

The orchestra played a Handel opera. I really wanted to be part of that. I had never before heard a sound so powerfully sculpted and noble.

What’s one of your favourite pieces of music and why?

It may seem a somewhat sentimental answer, but I always like the piece best that I am playing at the moment, or am about to play.

Is there anything about you that would surprise people?

I partly run a cafe-restaurant in Berlin that is attached to a permaculture garden.