My influences in no particular order:

klaus lang, maria joao pires, vladimir horowitz, beethoven, eberhard weber, radu lupu, mitsuko uchida, pierre boulez, claudio abbado, leonard bernstein, carlos kleiber, guillaume du fay, clara haskil, mozart, stanley kubrick, tchaikovsky, marilyn crispell, paul motian, jack dejohnette, michael dipasqua, alfred cortot, sofia gubaidulina, schumann, ivo pogorelich, c.p.e. bach, alfred brendel, bruckner, mahler, jeff buckley, valentin silvestrov, matthias pintscher, elliott carter, helmut lachenmann, coldplay, carlo maria guilini, radiohead, keane, smoosh, gyorgy kurtag, fiona apple, cy twombly, anatol ugorski, emil gilels, rothko, goya, van gogh, nono, bill frisell, ornette coleman, miles davis, sting, myra melford, herbie hancock, chick corea, lyle mays, pat metheny, steve swallow, paul bley, bill evans, gary burton, frank zappa, james taylor, genesis, peter gabriel, paul simon, joni mitchell, the beatles, king crimson, keith jarrett, satie, webern, schoenberg, berg, schubert, brahms, sibelius, glenn gould, andras schiff, bartok, haydn, stravinsky, debussy, steve reich, gyorgy ligeti, messiean, steve kuhn, maurizio pollini, martha argerich, gidon kremer, arturo benedetti michaelangeli, ingmar bergman, bernard hermann, krystian zimerman, j.s. bach, beat furrer, olga neuwirth, gerard grisey, alberto posadas, philippe manoury, mathias spahlinger, salvatore sciarrino, yasujiro ozu, toshio hosokawa, peter ablinger, claude vivier, wolfgang mitterer, georg friedrich haas, francisco lopez, jonathan harvey, ramon lazkano, jose sanchez-verdu, hector parra, christophe eschenbach, daniil trifonov, jakob ullmann, stefano battaglia, charles rosen, gille deleuze, stanley corngold, slavoj zizek, mick goodrick, osvaldo coluccino, franco donatoni, eliane radigue, einar torfi einarsson, stefan weglowski, lisa streich, michelle lou