45 XAVIER PHILLIPS ∙ LAUSANNE SOLOISTS For someone who has received so much, teaching cannot be separated from life as a concert artist. ‘We must pay attention to others, we must step outside of ourselves, and 'we must give’ he insists. At the HEMU – Valais-Wallis in Sion, his students learn that there is no cheating in music. It is a matter of passion and of truth. ‘We must certainly honour the music as it is written, but above all as the composer imagined it.’ This is how Xavier Phillips conceives his mission as an interpreter. These are the values he passes on. He, who has constructed himself through time and experience, also wants to make his students stronger. His musical horizon is vast, and knows no frontier. Discovery and novelty make his musician’s heart beat just as emphatically as the works of Beethoven, Brahms, Offenbach and Fauré, together with works by Jaëll and Sohy. Following in the footsteps of Rostropovich, he is passionate about Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Dutilleux, Britten and their concertante works. When his 1710 Matteo Gofriller cello and he take up their place before the bustling orchestra, an exhilarating adventure begins. The feeling of courting tremendous ever changing danger, mingling with the excitement of performance, the heightened pleasure of sound and of exchange. With his muscles, breath and mind fully engaged, and the music flowing from the bow, he no longer searches; he finds…
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