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"What became increasingly important to us was to find ways to make the concert experience as thrilling and emotionally heightened for the audience as it is for the players."

– Nicholas Collon

"I thought about what the film was about. Resurrection. Dead parts coming together into a monster who, through Karloff’s great acting, has a soul."

– Michael Shapiro

"Taking place in a beautiful 11th-century abbey in Belgium, the festival will be a celebration of the highest-quality musicians from all different genres, classical to jazz to Eastern European – a true haven for all the arts."

– Abigél Králik

The Bonobo show acted as a kind of the catalyst for everything that has happened to me since, like exploring different ways of using the organ, and seeing how we can surprise audiences in person or online.

– Anna Lapwood

In many ways Verdi’s Requiem was the perfect introduction both compositionally and spiritually to the vast new territory that was to become the rest of my life.

– Rufus Wainwright

It’s open and free and works for people who might find traditional concerts too stuffy.

– Christopher London