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Who are your favourite musicians/composers?
My favourite composers include Sofia Gubaidulina, Philip Glass, Steve Reich
and Lili Boulanger. Recently I have become a big fan of Sudan Archives. I
also love the work of Anna Meredith and especially admire how the energy of
her music is matched by tremendous animation and video design in her music
videos.
As a musician, what is your definition of success?
I define success as being able to move and affect people with your music, and
connect people through a shared experience. Other measures of success do
not concern me so much as achieving artistic and emotional honesty which
can communicate directly with an audience.
What do you consider to be the most important ideas and concepts to
impart to aspiring musicians?
I think having faith in your own ideas is important, while being simultaneously
open to collaboration and being adaptive in your own creative practice. Being
receptive to the ideas of other artists usually makes the final work much
stronger, especially in the case of writing for theatre/ opera.
Where would you like to be in 10 years’ time?
I would like to be working across a wide range of collaborative contexts,
especially involving film makers.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
To be surrounded by people who make you smile and laugh.
What is your most treasured possession?
A beautiful, glittering orange stone I found in Brooklyn and gave to my late
mother as a Christmas present.
What do you enjoy doing most?
I most enjoy getting lost in writing music, watching horror movies and
encountering friendly cats!
What is your present state of mind?
Excited, by turns quite stressed but also contemplative.
Guildhall School alumnus Lliam Paterson’s opera ‘The Angela
Esmeralda’, commissioned by Scottish Opera receives its world
premiere on Monday 24 February and runs until Monday 2 March at Silk
Street Theatre, Barbican Cente, London. Further information

Lliam Paterson was born in Ellon, Aberdeenshire in 1991. After studies at the
Aberdeen City Music School and St. Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh he read
music at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, where he graduated First
Class. He had private compositions lessons with Errollyn Wallen while at
Cambridge. Lliam subsequently studied as a piano accompanist with Eugene
Asti and as a repetiteur at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama,
completing his studies with Distinction. During his time at the Guildhall, he
studied privately with Judith Weir.