I’ve long been attracted by the idea of the musician as an improviser. The pressure to produce perfect performances has gradually led to the emergence of entirely separate musical professions: you have to be either an instrumentalist, or an improviser, or a composer. I think this process has taken something very valuable away from us musicians. That’s why I had the idea of putting together a group where classical and jazz musicians could share their experience. Exprezz’s repertoire is basically built on classical works. The acoustic fabric of these works gives us a pretext for improvisation in different styles. New musical structures come into being as a result: collages of classical and jazz timbres which the musicians play around with. This leads to new discoveries both for the performers and the listener…