Tom York

I guess since I started making music, I've always had that.

But then, of course, the Eureka moments didn't really happen when I was 12.

It's time to go to the music.

Tell us about your first piece today.

Why have you chosen this?

These are friends of ours, the Lebec sisters, and they are two virtuoso piano players.

And I recently actually wrote, for the first time in my life, I wrote piano music for them, even though I can't read music.

And I was thinking, OK, you're on a desert island and I'm a musician, so I'm going to struggle with my choices because by the nature of being a musician, I'm going to hate them.

Go on, tell me more about that for the non-musicians listening.

Well, I spend my life listening to the same thing over and over and over and over and over again until I've got it right.

And the same goes with any piece of music.

If you listen to it enough times, you're going to see through it or you're going to hate it or your relationship with it changes.

And I would not want that to happen.

So the choices on a desert island, they'd have to be small doses of something very, very sweet at the time when I really, really need something.

So this particular piece starts sad, tentative, cautious, you know, feeling around where it wants to be, and then it opens up and it opens up and it flowers, you know, literally like the dawn to me.

And I felt, I'm going to need that, because...

I'm going to be going completely out of my mind.

MUSIC PLAYS

Tom, you were spellbound.

Yeah, I was.