Otago Mozart Fellow, the very busy Dylan Lardelli

Dylan Lardelli started out teaching himself to play his big sister's abandoned guitar. Now he travels the world playing with ensembles and is considered to be in the vanguard of our next generation of composers. Dylan is this year's University of Otago Mozart Fellow, and in between composing new work and working with students, he's flying to Asia to build on his long standing collaborations with Japanese musicians. He's also been the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's composer in residence, he performs with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Stroma and 175 East Ensembles, and he's just performed in two concerts with overseas musicians. So, as he tells Lynn Freeman, he has a lot to thank his big sister for.