JONATHAN POWELL: JOHN WHITE - John White: Adventures at the Keyboard

�I write a lot for piano for two main reasons. Firstly, being a pianist allows me to be in touch with a rich and�exciting repertoire. This gives me a great variety of role models in terms of vocabulary and gesture with�which to formulate and �clothe� the ideas which come to me and seem to need expression. Secondly, being an�idealistic rather than a �career� composer, I find the piano a handy vehicle for the uttering (�Outering�) of�compositional thought. That is, the inspiration goes directly into a performable medium without the�salesmanship required for getting ensemble pieces played.� John White