These are a few of my favourite pieces...

Pieces that have affected and influenced me the most. It’s hard to pick only a few of these because the list could go on and on and on and on and on...

Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring
The piece that started it all for me, so I can’t really be objective about this piece. The dance of the adolescent girls is heavier and more savage than anything Metallica has ever written! There is not a single part of this piece that is not worth listening to or studying.

Jacob Druckman, Aureole and Chiaroscuro
The orchestration in these pieces is something truly special. It only deals with colour, something I don’t care for when it's done all by itself,. but the sounds he gets out of the orchestra are truly phenomenal! They come directly from electronic music, but sound much, much better in their orchestral form.

Maurice Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin
These pieces, what can I say, gems of pure, simple, untainted perfection. Ravel was a master of form, effect, melody. I want to be like him. (Except for the fact that he liked to dress up and wear rouge and blush...)

J.S. Bach, Inventions and Sinfonias
I love playing the inventions especially, I can't say I listen to them so much. They are like composition blueprints. I have obscenely analyzed a few of these, pored over every detail of their construction. Analyzing Bach is like a religious experience for me. I get this great feeling of the awe, of touching the divine when I do it. I analyze bach once in a while to recharge the ol' battery.