Favourite place you have ever visited?
It has to be the Acropolis of Athens…
What is the best piece of advice you have been given?
Be friends with your stomach ‘butterflies’ whenever they appear, accept them, invite them, use them as energy; they are butterflies after all…
Ideal restaurant meal option
Anything to do with fresh fish on the grill
What scene in a movie always gives you goosebumps every time you watch it?
The scene with the little girl in red, in Schindler’s list
What do you wish someone taught you a long time ago?
How to ski… (I am afraid I have never…)
What book had the most significant impact on you?
The Iliad
Tell us something you are good at that may surprise us
Operating the high-pressure hose on a fire truck, while deep inside a forest fire
What, in your opinion, is the most amazing animal?
The lyrebird; incredible repertoire and singing abilities, beautiful tone.
What TV show are you hooked on or were recently hooked on?
House
If you had to lose one of your senses, which would you choose to lose?
Sight. I need to listen to the world more carefully.
Has there ever been a time when something so amazing or unexpected happened that it literally left you speechless for a time?
Playing the first ever performance and recording take of a 20th century violin concerto by Skalkottas, in Henry Wood Hall, with the LPO
What card or board games do you like to play?
Chess please… (if we can count it as one)
