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This piece attempts to capture musically, the particular way that Spring feels as we suddenly know a touch of something bright…
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This piece was written in memory of, and is dedicated to AJ Hickling, a beautiful human being and extraordinary musician…
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This is part of a set of three ‘Dedications’ for solo violin, solo cello, harp and string ensemble. This one is dedicated to my partner, Sonia.
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Moehau is a forested mountain at the far Northern end of the Coromandel peninsula…
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This is part of a set of three ‘Dedications’ for solo violin, solo cello, harp and string ensemble. This one is dedicated to Viola.
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The sense is of nature growing and evolving from silence through noise to eventual harmony while never loosing it's origin.
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This piece began as a simple sketch playing with 4 against 3 on my piano at home. Drawing inspiration from the piano writing of Liszt, Chopin, Debussy and Beethoven…
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This piece was inspired by the feeling of soft goodness and home in an embrace with my partner after a month apart…
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This is part of a set of three ‘Dedications’ for solo violin, solo cello, harp and string ensemble. This one is dedicated to Jane.
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This first piece in the Mōkihinui Suite is full of innocence. On a sunny day the Mōkihinui River is full of lively movement and reflected sunlight. Imagine deep emerald green swimming holes and rushing rapids.
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Mōkihinui Mists features the deep and mysterious sonority of the bass clarinet matched with a long held high note on violin to set the scene of forested hills cloaked in mist. The slow rising and falling of the melody suggests the all-enveloping movement of the ever changing mists.
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Mōkihinui Tides is descriptive of the myriad tidal moods of the Mōkihinui River at it's meeting with the ocean.
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All is calm. Behind us the hills covered in native forest are just beginning to come to life. There's a moment of stillness. The first rays of amber sunlight break through the treetops, warming the campers below…
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1st String Quartet
The first movement of the string quartet features a unique rhythmic grouping of a beat split in three followed by a beat split in four.
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1st String Quartet
The second movement of the string quartet was written one evening when I was feeling deeply lost and emotionally desolate. The process of writing and listening allowed me to recognize the serene beauty within the inner struggle.
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1st String Quartet
After the inner discoveries of the previous movement “Desolation”, “Understanding” comes with a calm clarity and sense of resolution.
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1st String Quartet
The final movement is a joyful high speed romp with a game of chase between the instruments.
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The first of a set of four little tangos I wrote just for fun. I’ve always loved tango music and the violin is it’s ideal instrument…
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The second of a set of four little tangos I wrote just for fun. I’ve always loved tango music and the violin is it’s ideal instrument…
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The third of a set of four little tangos I wrote just for fun. I’ve always loved tango music and the violin is it’s ideal instrument…
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The fourth of a set of four little tangos I wrote just for fun. I’ve always loved tango music and the violin is it’s ideal instrument…