His crime? Playing jazz in the practice room. The very notion of mixing your musical influences was frowned upon back then. “Oh yeah. Very much so,” Richter admits.
When he was a student at Edinburgh University, studying piano and composition, Max Richter remembers hearing a story about a lecturer who was “busted” from the job.
His crime? Playing jazz in the practice room. The very notion of mixing your musical influences was frowned upon back then. “Oh yeah. Very much so,” Richter admits.