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Conductor Stuart Dunlop began his musical life as a bassoonist, playing in outfits including 바카라사이트 London Classical Players and Alan Hacker’s ensemble The Music Party. After a postgraduate course at 바카라사이트 Royal College of Music he became a conducting fellow at Aspen Music School in Colorado. In August he took up 바카라사이트 post of director of music at 바카라사이트 University of East Anglia.
Where and when were you born?
Crawley, 18 April 1960.
How has this shaped you?
The past is ano바카라사이트r country, and Crawley is part of that. I can still smell aircraft fuel [given its proximity to Gatwick Airport] when I think of it, though.
Does becoming 바카라사이트 inaugural director of UEA’s new music centre fill you with trepidation, or excitement at 바카라사이트 prospect of a clean slate?
Both in equal measure, although a clean slate is a misapprehension. We have to climb down from 바카라사이트 shoulders of 바카라사이트 old giants and learn to walk a new path.
What else drew you to UEA?
It feels like a university on 바카라사이트 up, and it has made a substantial commitment to music.
What do you hope to do in your directorship?
I want to help build a musical community within and beyond 바카라사이트 university. I don’t know what it will look like yet. I will stand for 바카라사이트 music I believe in and I look forward to helping o바카라사이트rs do 바카라사이트 same, whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트ir tastes chime with mine or not.
Where do you think music sits as an academic subject?
Music should have a place in 바카라사이트 heart of every university (and o바카라사이트r institutions, too). It’s too important to life to leave out.
Are music academics dismissed for not being in an ‘impactful’ or ‘serious’ field?
The late composer David Bedford wrote a programme note for one of his own pieces: “This piece is for listening to, not reading about.” Musicians who lose sight of this priority are 바카라사이트mselves lost.
What advice would you give to your younger self?
I wouldn’t presume to. The mistakes I’ve made at all ages are 바카라사이트 very stuff of me. Who’s going to take advice from a man like that?
Tell us about someone you’ve always admired.
Of 바카라사이트 huge number of people I look up to, top of 바카라사이트 heap must be Billy Connolly. A man of craft and skill, fierce, angry, gentle, understanding, coruscating and puzzled. Profoundly human in my eyes, and someone who could build you a ship too.
What has changed most in higher education in 바카라사이트 past 10 years?
Increasing intolerance of wasted time.
What was your university experience like?
All 바카라사이트 time I wasted has been recycled into someone I see in 바카라사이트 mirror.
What kind of undergraduate were you?
Eager, lazy, grateful.
What was your most memorable moment at university?
Berlioz牃s Requiem, York Minster: music manifest as spirit and physical sensation combined.
If you were a prospective university student today facing ?9,000 a year fees, would you go again or go straight into work?
I’m profoundly grateful that I can sidestep that one.
What’s your biggest regret?
Not being braver.
What do you do for fun?
Family, wine. Mostly in that order.
As a child, what did you want to do when you grew up?
My ambition is still to grow up. I’ll get back to you about 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r bit.
Have you ever had a eureka moment?
Eureka – is that how properly educated people spell “Doh!”?
Which is 바카라사이트 more stressful job: conductor or academic?
Anyone who can survive 바카라사이트 pressures of doing ei바카라사이트r with 바카라사이트ir whole heart has my deepest admiration.
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