Celebrating the music of today is hugely important, and making heard contemporary composers of every visual colour and every invisible one, on every concert programme, I consider a responsibility towards the future. Six years ago, Chi-chi Nwanoku founded Chineke!, Europe’s first majority Black, Asian, and ethnically diverse orchestra, with whom I have performed, and recorded Errollyn Wallen’s Concerto Grosso.
Making music with others is all to do with treating them as individuals, and whether you can relate on a musical and human level. Our colour of skin is not the conversation, but when it is - racism is not my burden. 2020 changed the world, and while classical music continues to exceed expectations in a digital world, this is an apt opportunity to rethink and reboot and continue the progress.