We caught up with Sean Shibe ahead of Sean Shibe: Vivaldi Reimagined on 18 September at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
How has growing up in Scotland influenced your musical outlook?
There are commissions, programmes, textures and collaborations that I feel an urge to explore deep in my belly. I can’t help it. It is the urge to self-express.
You’ve been described as a musician who resists categorisation – is this important to your artistry and why?
Outside of music, what inspires you creatively?
Walking, people, books, films, sleeping is important, travel, space to think. It is not possible to operate at 100% all the time. I need time to recharge and I am trying to work out how to do this more often and get better at it. It is hard in a modern world. Creative juices are rejuvenated by the above and sapped by all the usual vices – emails, the phone, any number of uninspiring work-related tasks – and I suppose it is everyone’s mission to search for a better relationship with our creative inner world.
I suppose it is everyone’s mission to search for a better relationship with our creative inner world.
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