I was fortunate enough to learn from one of the greatest cello teachers of all times:
William Pleeth.
He taught me to love music by trying to convey its core message:
The human ability and need to understand each other.
For me as a musician that means my most important duty is make the audience understand the composer. Making music is communicating a composer‘s life to the listener.
Music is not about my life as a player. Music is about everybody‘s life.