“In commenting on ‘Miroirs’, Ravel quoted from Shakespeare: ‘The eye sees not itself / But by reflection, by some other things.’ To me, that means: we won’t fully understand ourselves without a view from the outside, so we need a mirror, and that mirror is nature.

Following her return to Aarhus Symphony Orchestra last week, Zlata Chochieva joins the Hamburg Camerata this Wednesday 26 April at […]

“I have always felt close to nature. When my life was turned upside down during the pandemic, when I couldn’t travel, or even meet people, I realised that it is the natural world that energises me the most. It is my greatest source of inspiration, and answers many of the questions I have.