 Music, it's an experience that goes beyond normal day-to-day living. It's a very personal experience for every single person. It's an opportunity to communicate to other people on a very, very deep emotional and personal level in a way that's far, far beyond any kind of words, because in music you're actually delivering to another person an experience of something. You're not conveying just information, but it's the direct translation of an emotional state, a mood to another person. We're entering a very, very interesting time of musical history in terms of, you know, what students can do in terms of, you know, their development and sort of things that they can look forward to in the future. Performance is central to the School of Music here, be it performance in, you know, classical music and jazz and contemporary music, but performance is also very important, say, as a composer or someone interested in music technology, because performance is the degree of skill that allows your personal experience to be conveyed to another person. My vision for the School is to provide an environment of discovery for students, that they're not locked into individual pathways where they can get elite performance training, elite composition training, get the very highest degree of musical education, and at the same time have room to explore a multitude of other facets of music, which could include composition, technology, multimedia, all different cultures of music in a way that it can get out to people and have cultural resonance.