"Loops; auscultative reminiscences; constrictions; foxes together in thought; and other “Hā” – breaths"
recent and very recent music by Salina Fisher, Micah Thompson, Stephen Clothier, Reuben de Lautour, Elliot Vaughan, Samuel Holloway, Ada Gentile, and György Ligeti.
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"As a solo performer, I am currently preoccupied with ⟝4 : 7⟞ which indicates an obscure pulse relationship in music: “four in the time of seven”.
Four concerts in seven days, each a separate, unaccompanied program.
I do not normally pursue egotistical solo projects, or indeed focus my career ‘solo’. Joyfully, I am an educator: currently a Professor of Music at the University of Canterbury; and besides that, lead a greatly varied musical life – here in New Zealand, and with the Formalist quartet and other US-based ensembles; am a composer, conductor, and frequently perform on the piano.
However, over the years my intensely focused interest in music ‘of our time’ and in particular the privilege I’ve had working with a great number of our time’s compellingly creative composers, has led to the idea of presenting, in one week, a sampling of the repertoire I have gathered – to celebrate the extraordinary labyrinth of sound available to the solo violin or viola, with each of the four programs offering a unique solo concert experience.
⟝4 : 7⟞ was first presented in Los Angeles in early 2017, and since then has been presented in Sacramento, and Christchurch."
