Hey everyone. Well yesterday I sent off my master portfolio down to Wellington. All 56minutes and 147pages of music. The last week was a mad scramble, partly because I thought I had an extra month, but by the time I sent it off it looked really good. Had some FANTASTIC recordings on the CD and overall was really pleased. I’ll get some of these recordings on to my audio player and MySpace soon.
So what now?? Good question! Have got lots of jobs and things to be doing over the next two weeks such as making my new website, musicpreparationservices.com, and doing a report for Creative New Zealand for some funding I got a while ago. After that … not sure. It’s time to reevaluate things I think! Bye for now.
Hey everyone, well if you’ve wondered where on earth I have got to over the last few weeks, I’ve entered turbo drive and have been working day and night on my Masters portfolio. I am SOO looking forward to getting it in. I’m just finishing off an orchestral piece “Ardor” and just have one other piece to finish. Still lots to do but everything seems to be on track.
By the way I got two more recordings of my pieces lately, so I’ll post them in the new player on the homepage and on MySpace. Haven’t even had a chance to listen to them yet but will do soon.
What else have I been up to? Good question … been working with my orchestra – they are starting to sound really good, we have a two-day workshop in a few weeks which will be great. Am playing in an Oratorio (see the next post) and have been rehearsing with Auckland Symphony who are off to china in two weeks.
Anyway must get back to work.
Well last night was this years NZSM Composers Competition Concert. It was … very interesting. I suppose I should start with my piece “No Ordinary Sun” – it was fantastic (of course I’d say that though). It was an extremely hard piece to put together for the performers, and it sounded great considering the amount of time that we had to put it together in. So they did extremely well. It was performed by far the best it ever has been, so I really couldn’t have asked for more. I think the complexity of the piece really paid off in portraying its nature and creating quite a unique sound world which I was pleased about. Had tonnes of great comments and feedback from various people afterwards, especially about the colours and stylistic elements of the piece, as well as the effectiveness of the percussion writing, so overall it was a good night. Anyway perhaps I shouldn’t say anything about the rest of the concert, except that Alexandra Hay’s piece was absolutely fantastic, I loved it, and it was the very well deserved and clear winner.
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I thought I should sum up what’s happening musically at the moment.
Well… I’ve got the NZSO workshops next week which should be great. My piece “Unspoken Monologue” is being workshopped and recorded which I am REALLY looking forward to. Last years piece of mine that was in it was ‘nice’, this years piece is fantastic. So I can’t wait to hear what they do with it.
Then after that “NO Ordinary Sun” is in the NZSM Composition Competition finals concert on 15th September. It WILL be great. Am having an absolute battle getting all the players for it … especially a tenor. But SLOWELY its coming together (though fingers are still crossed).
Finally “Insight” is being premiered by ‘The New Aesthetic’ – the NZSM Graduate Quartet. This piece is great, I was trying out a heap of new things, so I guess I will find out if they worked. lol It will be a great concert though. Details on any of these concerts can be found here.
At the moment I’m working on “Mei Spero” for nine instruments (including a heap of percussion) and have ripped to bits (not literally) “Through my eyes, I see” which was workshopped at the Nelson workshop and I’m gradually building it up again and it is AWESOME!! It’s going really well. Aside these things for my masters work, I’m revising my wedding suite for piano which is getting recorded soon. It’s a really awesome piece of music. I’ve been contemplating the role it actually plays in the service – part of the reason I’m revising it. I definitely haven’t got an outcome. Hmmmm…
Bye for now
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