Six years ago with Patrick Sheridan! The meeting took place at a hotel in a small town in the Marche (Monterubbiano) while the musician was engaged in preparing for a gig (as a soloist) in fulfillment of a master for a period of two days! Lyricism and techniques were (and are) the most important qualities that I appreciated from this tightrope of tuba! A man who, besides knowing how to demonstrate a 'high command of his instrument, human and intellectual qualities reveals not indifferent. An all-round musician!
Q. Who is Patrick Sheridan?
R. Are un'intrattenitore! For me making music is to tell a story! What I like, when I make music, is that you create a relationship with the public.
D. This justifies the choice of repertoire that can be appreciated by a large segment of the public?
R. The reason why I play not so much original repertoire for tuba is because I realize that by doing so, not to express any emotion to the audience that listens to me, I do not speak with them, do not create just the right ratio reciprocity.
D. This footage was created as a child, that is, when he played the first transcripts?
R. I studied the original repertoire for tuba in school and college and helped me a lot for the technique and approach to the instrument as such, since, when I play, the goal of creating a reaction from the audience, I think I perform when the audience reacts positively to 'listen to songs like the Carnival of Venice than listen to a sonata by Hindemith ! It 'true that there are, however, Songs such as "Tuba Concerto Hellerby, which will play tonight, easy listening: it suggests a positive reaction in the listener!
D. You had the merit of making a new role as a tool to Tuba solo: Do \u200b\u200byou plan to raise the role like the violin, the piano?
R. I agree with what you say but it is not my point! I look for a reaction in public, my goal is to stimulate awareness of those who listen to me! The Tuba has many limitations as a solo instrument! I do not use my instrument as if it was my voice! Tonight, for example, the acoustics of the theater is ideal for the tuba because there is no echo, quite dry, so you can deal with virtuoso pieces! But in the theater this morning, the acoustics were terrible, there was too much echo and was not ideal to deal with a repertoire virtosistico! The register of the Tuba is low compared to what human beings are used to hearing. When I play the high register on a common viewer does not perceive the difficulty of the high notes because the human ear is not high. Ordinary people have become accustomed to listening to Pavarotti, Carreras and I have to imitate those voices!
D. You have already recorded two cds and you're going to make a third in September in collaboration with Dutch Army Band. How does the band has influenced your solo work?
R. My experience in the band did not affect my work as soloist, soloist in the band when I was president of the U.S., I performed many solo concerts, which have enabled me to overcome the fear of the general public!
D. For 11 years he was playing your first solo concerto for tuba and band (a transcription of Mozart's Horn Concerto)! What is the teaching in your long and hectic work solo?
R. Hmmm ... now teaching I asked but I do my own volition, not because I do not want or do not like, but simply because I do not feel ready for this responsibility. Teaching is like playing! It 's a particularly difficult task, complicated, we must deal in itself! Sound today, I want to play, I like to play, I can play even if I go anywhere in the world all want advice from me! I do not feel ready to take a course permanent.
D. This is your relationship with the teaching may be because of your teachers includes Arnold Jacobs?
R. Yes, of course! Arnold Jacobs preferred to teach: it was certamente il migliore professore che un musicista possa avere! Io voglio fare il musicista però ho dovuto, per necessità, diventare un buon insegnante! La logica è dunque diversa!
D. Quali personalità hanno influenzato la tua vita artistica? (Sappiamo che tra i tuoi insegnanti annoveri oltre a Jacobs, Harvey Philips, Perantoni, Jim Self, tua madre stessa).
R. Non c’è uno più di altro che mi ha influenzato! Io prendo la mia fonte d’ispirazione dalle persone. Da ciascuna di esse prendo il meglio.
D. La scuola americana ha influenzato fortemente l’Italia. Pensi che sia la migliore?
R. I do the differences in the brass! For me the best school of the Viennese horn is. For the trumpet, however, think that the sections of the American orchestras as the Chicago or New York are fantastic in dealing with the symphonic repertoire German, Austrian (Mahler, Bruckner) and some other American composers like Copland, Gershwin! Solo repertoire for the Baroque and I think that Paris is the top! What I do not like the American school is that everything is big, strong, broad. Everything is dealt with as well! It 'difficult to answer on this comparison. The differences related to culture is a factor of 'enrichment. The work I want to hear only in Milan; Vienna Viennese repertory, flamenco in Spain! I feel fortunate to travel the world and learn about many different cultures. What I could not do in Chicago!
D. What is your advice to young people who come to the instrument or who have not reached a good professional level?
R. The most important thing in my opinion, is to remain open to all experiences! Become the best, in my opinion, is to appreciate and learn from diversity, not to get from the comforts that surround us. This in all fields! When you enter a 'orchestra in the United States, like Boston, you're competing with 500 other plumbers! Who now plays in the first year of a university is like a tuba player in the orchestra came 30 years ago! When anyone comes to me and asks me to want to play in my own way, I reply that the 13 years I studied 4-5 hours a day already and the 18 to 21 studies seven hours a day with 7-8 one day a month off! All the plumbers like me and like I mentioned before, have had the same path. We should not think that having a job is all finished, you should always go on! If you want to make the maximum you should not stop you! You have to love what you do very much because it is a huge commitment of time and ever! Your reward will be a pure matter of satisfaction, not cheap! You have to love what you do in order to be rewarded!
