The tone quality and the way you can use it in music. Its straightforwardness, purity, and exactness are the tools you have to play with in order to bring the instrument to life. As a professional instrument, there are quiet a few things to master, but that is presumably valid for every instrument played at a professional level. That means we enjoy an all-contemporary program just as much as a Spanish Renaissance program. The music becomes a part of you.
Music is a living art, meaning it is susceptible to constant changes.
One genre influences the other and we believe that this is normal and healthy for musicians. We felt quite strongly about this when, in 1981, we were in the finals of the Musica Antiqua competition in Brugge. We performed a Stevie Wonder song against the rules of the competition. We just had to do it. We plan to travel to the United States next winter.