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P R O M E T H E A N E D I T I O N SNEW EDITION
GARETH FARR continues to be one of
New Zealand’s most diverse compos-
ers, having completed a characteristical-
ly wide variety of national and interna-
tional projects in 2008-09. Chief amongst
these was his violin solo Wakatipu,
commissioned as the set work for semi-
finalists in the prestigious 2009 Michael
Hill International Violin Competition,
held in Queenstown and Auckland, New
Zealand, in June. Farr attended the eight-
een performances of the work, and was
present when competition finalist Yoo
Jin Jang was awarded the prize for best
performance of the work.
At the other end of the spectrum,
music for stage and screen formed a
large part of Farr’s work over the past
year; his music for Kia Ora Khalid, a chil-
dren’s opera, received praise throughout
its New Zealand tour in March and April
2009. Other stage works included music
for the plays Heat, and Blood Wedding.
Farr’s 1992 work Pagan Prayer was
integrated into a production featuring
live orchestral music with innovative
dance during Vancouver’s International
Dance Festival in March 2009. Kokoro
Dance collaborated with the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra to present the work
alongside music by Scott Good and Arvo
Pärt. Globe and Mail reviewer Elissa Poole
commented on the “apocalyptic intensity”
of Farr’s work, concluding that the col-
laboration was “not a normal night at the
symphony”.
Most recently, Farr participated in a
collaborative composition and perform-
ance project for Susan Lei’ataua’s theatre
work Breaking the Surface at Skirball
Theatre, New York City on 16 April 2009.
The latter was presented by the Asian/
Pacific/American Institute of New York
University.
Farr’s works have received a wide lis-
tening over the past year. In November
2008, he was the featured composer on
KUSC Classical, Los Angeles. Well-known
host Jim Svejda presented a five hour
programme on the composer’s life and
work, introducing Farr to a huge new
audience. The programme included works
from Farr’s September 2008 album release
Tangaroa (MMT2058), featuring percus-
sionist Jeremy Fitzsimons.
Tangaroa spent eleven consecutive
weeks in the Radio New Zealand Classical
Chart after its release in September 2008.
Works on the album include the title
piece, Tangaroa, (marimba solo), the
well-known and much-played Kembang
Suling (marimba and flute), Tuatara (per-
cussion and piano), Dialogue (marimba
and vibraphone) and Spook (marimba).
A variety of prominent performers
continue to promote Farr’s music in New
Zealand and worldwide. In November
2008, renowned pianist Henry Wong Doe
gave the North American premiere per-
formance of The Horizon from Owhiro
Bay at Carnegie Hall, New York. The work
was originally commissioned as part of
a cycle of short piano works by New
Zealand composers and premiered by
pianist Stephen De Pledge in February
2008. In February, Farr’s He Poroporoaki,
for the New Zealand String Quartet and
Richard Nunns, received its New Zealand
premiere. In May, percussionists Jeremy
Fitzsimons and Pedro Carneiro took Farr’s
Dialogue to Portugal, where it was per-
formed at the Lisbon Festival of Music.
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REPERTOIRE RECOMMENDATION Vector Wellington Orchestra, 12 July 2008
BERNstEiN: Chichester Psalms
FARR: Triple Concerto
Rimsky-kORsAkOv: scheherezade
Pagan Prayer performed by Kokoro Dance & Vancouver Symphony players Roundhouse Theatre,
Vancouver
Collaboration has been a key feature
of John Psathas’ recent work. In July
2008, Psathas arranged the music of New
Zealand psychedelic rock band Little
Bushman for their performance with the
Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra. The
performance was one of a series of well-
received concerts the APO has presented
in recent seasons featuring prominent
New Zealand bands of various types. In
October 2009, the New Zealand Orchestra
will present another programme featur-
ing the combined talents of Psathas and
the band.
Following on from the success of the
APO performance, Psathas was once again
engaged by the APO to work with Serj
Tankian, solo artist and unconventional
frontman of System of a Down. The per-
formance on 16 March 2009, featured
works from Tankian’s multifaceted solo
album Elect the Dead, scored by Tankian
and arranged by Psathas. Describing
the process of collaboration at the time,
Psathas said ‘the arrangements and
orchestrations keep getting bigger and
bigger. We’re scoring for a big orchestra,
and the APO certainly have their work
cut out for them. Serj is totally clear
about how he wants this to sound, and I
love that he’s been pushing me to come
up with ways to create an energy that is
different from, but as powerful as, the
performances on the Elect the Dead CD.’
The concert was filmed for eventual DVD
release.
Psathas’ works continue to excite
audiences around the world, with many
performers introducing his music to
new audiences. The New Zealand String
Quartet took Kartsigar on their 2008
European tour, and Giunter Percussion
and the Lithuanian State Symphony
Orchestra gave the European perform-
ance of the intense and exciting 2002 work
Psyzygysm. New Zealand percussionist
Jeremy Fitzsimons, an experienced per-
former of Psathas, joined forces with the
renowned percussionist Pedro Carneiro
to present Ukiyo in Portugal in May 2009.
Carneiro also played One Study One
Summary at the Percussive Arts Society
International Conference in Austin, Texas
in November 2008. Other North American
performances have included the Flexible
Music Ensemble’s performance of Mal
Occhio in New York City in March this year.
The Boston Crusaders recently performed
an arrangement of Psathas’ Maenads, the
final movement of his double concerto
View from Olympus, as part of their Drum
Corps International World Championship
show “The Core of Temptation”.
Psathas’ rich Greek musical heritage
will once again be front and centre in
Zeibekiko II, an update to his major 2004
work (conceived as an entire programme)
for the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
and Greek traditional instrument solo-
ists. The wind ensemble toured Holland
with Zeibekiko in 2004 and it featured
in the Bath Festival (UK) later the same
year. New Zealand contemporary music
ensemble Stroma picked up the pro-
gramme and presented it in the 2006
New Zealand International Festival of the
Arts, with the original soloists. Zeibekiko
received immense praise, The Guardian
(UK) describing it as “an intoxicating col-
laboration … [that] balanced nostalgia
with celebration”. The NBE will premiere
Zeibekiko II in 2010. Zeibekiko II will
encompass 2500 years of Greek music,
from the Byzantine era to contemporary
Greek sounds. The programme will once
again feature and draw on the talent of
Manos Achalinotopoulos (clarino trum-
pet) and percussionist Vanelis Karypis.
Among the most prominent perform-
ers of Psathas’ music is the Takács Quartet,
who will tour Psathas 2008 commission A
Cool Wind to a number of US centres in
March-April 2009, including the New York
premiere at Carnegie Hall. Quartet mem-
ber András Fejér said of the work during
its premiere tour of New Zealand “it’s very
convincing… It certainly feels as though
it is looking back to the great tradition
of string quartet music. It’s deeply felt,
a thoroughly thought through composi-
tion.”
A number of commissions and oppor-
tunities will demand the composer’s
attention in late 2009 and 2010. Psathas
received the top bid in a SOUNZ Centre
for New Zealand Music fundraising auc-
tion to commission five prominent NZ
composers, and will compose a work for
the commissioner’s choice of performer in
the coming months. He is currently com-
pleting work on a new marimba concer-
to, the result of a collaboration between
Pedro Carneiro and a consortium of New
Zealand’s four major regional orchestras.
The new work will be performed around
the country.
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Composer news
Jeremy Fitzsimons
REPERTOIRE RECOMMENDATION NZSO, Olympic Cultural Festival, Beijing27 August 2008
PsAtHAs: Olympiad XXVIII
ELGAR: Cello Concerto
siBELius: symphony No.2
CHRISTOS HATZIS’ In the Fire of
Conflict has been wowing audienc-
es in many forms since its premiere
by Denise Djokic and Scott Ryan (with
dance by Peggy Baker), on 5 August
2008 during the Toronto Summer Music
Festival. The work, in two continuous
movements, was originally scored for
cello and percussion, accompanied
by a digital audio part sourced from
American rapper Steve Henry (a.k.a.
Bugsy H., of Christian rap group Poetik
Disciples). In March 2009 the work was
performed in Brooklyn, New York, by
Seth Woods and Bill Solomon. It has also
been reworked as a marimba solo, and
performed by Beverley Johnston at the
Nebojsa Zivkovic International Summer
Music Academy, in Germany (she also
performed Hatzis’ Fertility Rites), and
as a percussion quartet performed by
TorQ Percussion Ensemble, in Toronto,
Canada. Hatzis said of the collaboration
with Henry; I have always been fascinated
by the prosodic rhythmic discourse of hip-
hop music, but certainly not by its implicit
endorsement of misogyny and violence that
one so often encounters in hip-hop lyrics.
Poetik Disciples used the same musical tech-
niques to essentially create devotional songs
and that was very inspirational to me.
Following the successful commission
of Tongues of Fire for Beverley Johnston
and Dame Evelyn Glennie in 2007, Hatzis
has again composed a major work for
Glennie, commissioned by the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation. Mirage?, for
solo percussion and chamber orchestra,
will be premiered in Winnipeg, Canada,
on 9 September 2009 by Glennie and
the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and
toured around Canada over the next three
weeks.
Hatzis has another major work being
premiered in the same week – Arabesque,
for solo violin, piano and string orches-
tra receives its first performance; Angèle
Dubeau will perform with La Pièta in
Mont-Tremblant, Canada. The work, which
Hatzis calls ‘autobiographical’, draws on a
variety of musical genres in the course
of its four movements. The work will be
performed in a number of Canadian and
US cities in late September and October
2009.
In October, Hatzis Redemption: Book 1
receives its world premiere in Ohio from
the Grammy Award winning Pacifica
Quartet with CityMusic Cleveland. The
work, 35 minutes in itself, is part of an
ambitious set of works. The Redemption
cycle, featuring five standalone works for
a variety of instrumental combinations,
is based on the theme of human redemp-
tion as expounded by turn-of-the-century
American seer Edgar Cayce. Redemption:
Book 5 is Hatzis’ well-received 2004 work
Sepulchre of Life, for soprano, Middle-
Eastern singer, SATB choir and symphony
orchestra. The complete set is expected to
encompass eight movements and some
two hours of music. Redemption: Books
2-4 are yet to be written.
Hatzis older works continue to receive
wide acclaim, with many receiving repeat
performances by prominent ensembles.
Vancouver Cantata Singers with Anne-
Julie Caron performed the 2000 work
Everlasting Light last October, while
Hatzis’ 2004 horn concerto Winter Solstice
was performed by the Camerata Orchestra
of Athens with Constantinos Siskos
(horn) and conductor Alexander Myrat
in January this year. The oboe concerto
Telluric Dances will receive its French
premiere from Gilles Loulier (oboe) and
Orchestre National de Montpellier in
November 2009. Hatzis’ percussion con-
certo Tongues of Fire has recently been
reworked for wind band by composer
Kevin Lau. The arrangement is the result
of a commission from a World Association
for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles
consortium, and will be first performed
by Rod Squance with the University of
Calgary Wind Ensemble early next year.
With such a wealth of performances,
of which these are only a small selec-
tion, it is no surprise that Hatzis was
the recipient of the 2008 Jan Matejcek
Concert Music Award. The prize, part of
Canada’s Juno Awards, is awarded to the
most performed and broadcast Canadian
composer, a testament to the breadth of
Hatzis’ appeal.
Angele Dubeau & La Pietà
REPERTOIRE RECOMMENDATION Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, 6 December 2008
COPLAND: three Latin-American sketches
HAtZis: Rebirth
BERNstEiN: Halil-Nocturne for Flute & Orchestra
BERNstEiN: symphonic Dances from West side story
Composer briefs
Promethean Editions’ published composers continue to
receive acclaim for their work.
Mike Nock, whose works feature in Firestarters 3, was
inducted into the Australian Jazz Hall of Fame at a ceremony
in Melbourne in 2009. Nock’s twenty-minute four-hand piano
work, Southern Suite, was premiered in May by New Zealand
pianists Michael Houstoun and Diedre Irons. In June, Nock’s
Fictional Realities was performed by the Apollo Trio, and broad-
cast live by the Australian Broadcasting Corporations, and pian-
ist Simon Tedeschi recorded two of Mike’s piano pieces for an
upcoming ABC classics album.
Helen Fisher’s choral and flute work Pounamu, first per-
formed in 1990, continues to draw performers and audiences
and students. A popular item in Promethean Editions’ Education
series, the work was performed in July and August by the
Auckland Choral Society, with conductor and flautist, Uwe
Grodd. Promethean Editions looks forward to adding three new
composers to the catalogue when Firestarters 4 is released early
2010.
Australian composer Katy Abbott has
recently returned to Melbourne from Dubai,
where she has been living. Since her return,
the composer has had her first sympho-
ny, Souls of Fire, broadcast in Australia and
Canada. Abbott has also been Composer-in-
Residence at the Conservatorium of Music at
the University of Tasmania in 2009.
New Zealand-based Gao Ping will contribute a piano work,
in addition to a busy year of composing, teaching and perform-
ing. In June, he played a recital with cellist Edith Salzmann at
Beijing’s Capital Normal University. NZTrio premiered the com-
poser’s new work Su Xie Si Ti (Four Sketches), in early July. A
piano quintet, mei, lan, zhu, ju, was also performed in August by
pianist John Chen, with the Singaporean T’ang Quartet.
Chris Gendall is a young New Zealand
composer currently undertaking the
D.M.A. programme at Cornell University,
New York. Gendall won the prestigious
SOUNZ Contemporary Award in 2008, one
of the youngest composers to do so. In
2009, Gendall was one of five composers
selected for a commission auction to raise
funds for SOUNZ Centre for NZ Music.
Stuart Greenbaum celebrated a recent success by winning
the Australian Music Centre/APRA ‘Orchestral Work of the
Year Award’ 2008 for his work 90 Minutes Circling the Earth. In
October 2009, he will be Composer-in-Residence for the Port
Fairy Spring Music Festival, which will include performances
of his works: Falling By Degrees, Evocation, Coventry Cathedral,
800 million heartbeats and Nelson Interludes. Greenbaum is also
the recipient of the 2009 Trans-Tasman composer residency, in
which he will travel to Auckland, NZ to work with NZTrio in
September.
Los Angeles and New York welcomed the music of Matthew
Hindson with the Adelaide Symphony’s tour and performance
of Kalkadunga, a concerto for didjeridu co-composed with
virtuoso William Barton in January this year. As Composer-in-
Residence with the Queensland Orchestra, Hindson was fea-
tured for a Composer Portrait concert on 31 August last month,
including performances of his orchestral works Rave-Elation,
Balkan Connection, two movements from A Symphony of Modern
Objects and a new version of Didjeribluegrass. On 23 September,
Hindson’s major new work Symphony No. 2: E=mc2 is to be pre-
miered by the Birmingham Royal Ballet in Birmingham, UK.
James Ledger continues to enjoy symphonic premieres as
Composer-in-Residence with the West Australian Symphony
Orchestra. In May they presented the world premiere of Arcs
and Planes. This month they are to present the world pre-
miere of Chronicles. In 2008, Ledger was awarded the Churchill
Fellowship for a research trip to Estonia, examining current
compositional practice.
The Westminster Philharmonia in London showcased com-
poser Anthony Ritchie with the performance of Symphony No.
1 ‘Boum’ in March this year. As Composer-in-Residence with
the Manukau Symphony Orchestra, Ritchie’s Piano Concerto
No.3 was premiered with soloist Emma Sayers in June. Another
notable performance this year was Widow’s Songs for choir, pre-
sented at the Asia Composers League in Korea.
This month, four works by Paul Stanhope feature at the
internationally renowned Vale of Glamorgan Festival in (Old
South) Wales: The Arch Window, Mularra, Yamihndi and the
Takemitsu prize-winning work Fantasia on a Theme of Vaughan
Williams to be performed by the BBC National Orchestra of
Wales.
Performer spotlight
DAME EVELYN GLENNIE has been a long-time sup-
porter of Promethean Editions’ composers. As the first
person to successfully create and sustain a full-time career
as a solo percussionist, Glennie was an early promoter of
the composers’ extensive list of percussion works. As well
as introducing works such as Psathas’ Drum Dances and
Matre’s Dance to her regular repertoire, she has premiered
works for solo percussion and orchestra, such as Farr’s Hikoi
(New Zealand Symphony Orchestra), Psathas’ View from
Olympus (Hallé Orchestra) and Percussion Concerto. Most
recently, she performed Christos Hatzis’ Tongues of Fire with
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra. In September 2009, Glennie will add another
major work from a Promethean composer to her repertoire
when she premieres Hatzis’ new concerto for percussion and
orchestra, Mirage? with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in
Winnipeg, Canada.
Glennie writes, “Over the years it has been a terrific
experience for me to collaborate with composers from New
Zealand. They all have their own distinctive voices and
approaches, all extremely exciting and all deserve worldwide
recognition. Thanks to the internet and the dedicated support
from Promethean Editions people from all over the world are
able to tap into the exciting talent that NZ is producing includ-
ing other non national composers that are supported through
Promethean.
“The percussion concerti I have been involved with by
John Psathas, Gareth Farr and Christos Hatzis have all been
extremely worthwhile additions to the percussion repertoire.
The impact these pieces have had on not only myself but many
other percussionists, orchestras, conductors and audiences has
been extensive which is why we return to these composers
asking them to write more and more for our medium!
“I have really adored how Christos, John and Gareth have
totally embraced and understood the participation of the audi-
ence – they have understood the need to deliver something
memorable, exciting, intriguing, thought-provoking. Their
music has no boundaries and one cannot easily categorize
their styles or voices which is why they seem to strike at the
heart of all people.”
HAVING COMPLETED the first five volumes of the his-
torically important Larry Pruden Collected Edition,
Promethean Editions is beginning work on the publication
of another important collection, the complete piano works of
Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001). Lilburn occupies a pre-eminent
position in New Zealand music, with a legacy extending well
beyond his compositional output. As a composer, a teacher,
and later as an encouraging background presence, he presided
in innumerable ways over the artistic growth of this country.
His music, from the early works redolent of the influence of
Sibelius and Vaughan Williams, to the electro-
acoustic pieces of his later years, makes up a
corpus of works that has been instrumental in
establishing a genuinely vernacular voice in New
Zealand classical music.
The youngest of seven children, Douglas
Lilburn spent his early years on Drysdale, the
family sheep station in the central North Island.
After winning a prize offered by Percy Grainger for
a new New Zealand orchestral piece, he enrolled
in 1937 at the Royal College of Music in London,
where his teachers included R.O. Morris and
Vaughan Williams. On his return to New Zealand
he taught composition at the Cambridge Summer Music Schools,
and in 1947 joined the staff of the newly-established music fac-
ulty at Victoria University of Wellington. Here, until his retire-
ment in 1981, he established a centre for composition, bringing
to his own music and to his students the fruits of his investiga-
tions into international trends in contemporary composition. He
established Waiteata Music Press
in 1967, and in 1984 founded the
Lilburn Trust, which continues to
support and promote New Zealand
Music.
The collection will draw on
the expertise of Series Editor
Robert Hoskins, who contribut-
ed in the same capacity to the
Pruden Collected Edition. Hoskins
will be joined by
Contributing Editor
Rod Biss. As well as
being a composer himself, Biss has extensive expe-
rience in the publishing industry, having worked
for Schott London and later Production Director of
Faber Music, and one of the co-founders of Price
Milburn Music Ltd. Biss is well-known in New
Zealand as a discerning reviewer and music jour-
nalist for many of the country’s most prominent
magazines and newspapers. Biss and Hoskins work
alongside an editorial panel yet to be confirmed.
The complete works will encompass some 26
individual standalone works and suites (the Occasional Pieces
for Piano suite alone includes some twenty short works), over
three volumes of music. The first two volumes will be released in
late 2009, with the remaining four volumes expected by the end
of 2010. The series will also comprise of a best of collection and
a special version with edited selections for young players.
Douglas Lilburn Complete Piano Music
VOLUME 5Works for String Orchestra
DOUGLAS LILBURN Piano Music 1
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Promethean Edition Series
GARETh FARR
DiALOGuE – viBRAPHONE AND mARimBA (PE083)
Dialogue was commissioned for Jeremy Fitzsimons to perform on a recording devoted to marimba music by Gareth Farr. it is set in three movements: introduction, kotekan, moto Perpetuo. this work explores the sonic interplay of the two instruments, from blending together as one sound to contrasting textures. ‘introduction’ is a development of a chord progression; ‘kotekan’ includes Balinese interlocking techniques (kotekan); and ‘moto Perpetuo’ surges forward with the two instruments interweaving in counterpoint, parallel motion and in canon.
tHREE EtuDEs – sOLO mARimBA (PE092)
Three Etudes was written while Farr was performing regularly as a marimba soloist. ‘From Duggan’ was created from the title theme music for the New Zealand television series Duggan for which Farr composed the soundtrack for two pilot episodes and the eleven one-hour episodes made subsequently. Duggan was a police-drama series in which Detective inspector John Duggan (played by John Bach) was given grisly murder cases to solve set against the scenic backdrop of New Zealand’s marlborough sounds. the second and third etudes were written for fellow percussionists Jeremy Fitzsimons and suzanne Warner respectively. Three Etudes showcases the many potential rhythmic and sonic possibilities of the marimba by exploiting virtuosic playing techniques (such as the double lateral stroke) and contrasting moods with seamless chordotonal melodies.
tHE HORiZON FROm OWHiRO BAy – sOLO PiANO (PE091)
The Horizon from Owhiro Bay was commissioned by the James Wallace Arts trust for pianist stephen De Pledge, as part of his programme of works by New Zealand composers, collectively titled ‘Landscape Preludes,’ first performed and presented this programme the New Zealand international Arts Festival on 28 February 2008. Farr writes: ‘this prelude is a musical representation of the view i see at twilight from my studio on the south Coast of Wellington - the moody dark green depths of Cook strait, the inky blue sky, and the endless unbroken horizon dividing the two. Fishing boats sit on the horizon all lit up, looking like little gleaming gemstones in the darkness. the occasional gust of wind stirs up wild eddies on the surface of the water, and the odd rogue wave hurls itself onto the rocks and up into the air in a spectacular explosion of sea spray.’
ChRISTOS hATZIS
OLD PHOtOGRAPHs – PiANO tRiO (PE104)
Old Photographs is a stand-alone movement for piano trio from the multimedia music theatre work Constantinople. Within the context of the larger work, it provides an antidote to the heartrending intensity of several of the other movements. unlike the rest of Constantinople, Old Photographs is totally based on western musical idioms and opens with an introspective theme for solo piano which is stylistically akin to the music of Robert schumann. As the work progresses the violin and cello enter and the music slowly drifts away from the classical/romantic mould of the opening towards early 20th-century popular idioms reminiscent of the music of Astor Piazzolla.
iN tHE FiRE OF CONFLiCt – sOLO PERCussiON WitH DiGitAL AuDiO (PE108)
In the Fire of Conflict is named after the theme for the 2008 toronto summer music Festival for which it was written. set in two continuous movements, ‘Rescue me’ & ‘i Call your Name,’ the live percussion part is performed with the rap music in the digital audio part, sourced from American rapper steve Henry a.k.a. ‘Bugsy H.’, of the Christian rap group Poetik Disciples. the live percussion weaves constantly around the rap lyrics, often drawing melodic contours from the prosodic contours of the spoken text.
JOhN PSAThAS
FRAGmENt (ARR. FitZsimONs) – viBRAPHONE & mARimBA (PE089)
this short work is an adaptation of a piano duet originally written to commemorate the retirement occasion of the composer’s first piano teacher, Peter Williams. At the time of its composition, Psathas was engaged in writing his double concerto for percussion, piano and orchestra, View From Olympus, and in mood and musical material, Fragment is related to the second movement of that work. this version for marimba and vibraphone was arranged by percussionist Jeremy Fitzsimons.
ONE stuDy ONE summARy – mARimBA, JuNk PERCussiON AND DiGitAL AuDiO (PE087)
One Study One Summary is a work for solo percussionist and digital audio, having been written for Pedro Carneiro, takes advantage of the performer’s collection of ‘junk percussion.’ As the title suggests, it is cast in two movements, and while the work exhibits the ‘busy’ motoric textures for which Psathas is well-known, reflective, atmospheric textures predominate throughout. this edition features two options for performance: one version with the junk percussion in the Digital Audio part (enabling performers to perform without live junk percussion), and another version without for performers to utilise their own battery of junk percussion. One Study One Summary was commissioned by Pedro Carneiro with funding support from Creative New Zealand.
sLEEPER – sOLO PiANO (PE090)
Sleeper was commissioned by the James Wallace Arts trust for pianist stephen De Pledge, as part of his programme of works by New Zealand composers, collectively titled ‘Landscape Preludes.’ De Pledge first performed and presented this programme at the New Zealand international Arts Festival on 28 February 2008. the composer writes: sleeper – noun, person who is asleep, a train carrying sleeping cars, a railroad tie. Sleeper is dedicated to the memory of young Fergus schulz, an intrepid traveler, still traveling…
Massey Edition
RAlPh VAuGhAN WIllIAMS
sCENEs FROm BuNyAN’s PiLGRim’s PROGREss (PmE14)
Edited by Nathaniel Lew
Published for the first time, Scenes Adapted from Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress contains the complete script and extant musical numbers from the 1907 and 1908 productions in London. this publication is edited and considered for modern readers and performers. the script is restored and clarified, and includes detailed music cues. the score draws on several primary sources, and existing gaps are filled with additional music selections and fabrications in the Appendix. in the preface, Nathaniel Lew explains the sources and editorial decisions leading to this publication, all of which makes for both a scholarly and practical work.
JOhN RITChIEPAPANui ROAD – ORCHEstRA (PmE11)
Rich with kaleidoscopic images, Papanui Road gives a vivid ‘snapshot’ of bustling central Christ-church during the 1950s – one that encompasses not only the cityscape but much of the composer’s own experience and spirit. the composer writes: ‘Having lived near Papanui Road for most of my life – having cycled, driven and walked on it, having shopped, eaten and prayed in or on it, i feel at home there. As young people say, it has ‘vibes’ for me. it certainly has memories... this concert overture tries to hint at the bustle, the vitality and the peace of Papanui Road; an impression rather than a picture... For all its pictorialism this concert overture is a serious, even a solemn and nostalgic work. its aim is to evoke memories and the atmosphere of an important, busy thoroughfare in the composer’s home town.’
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Promethean Editions Limited
Scenes Adapted from Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
By Evelyn U. Ouless
Music composed and selected by Ralph Vaughan WilliamsEdited by Nathaniel G. Lew
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Recent Editions
23 July 2008AuCkLAND tOWN HALL, AuCkLAND, NZJohn Psathas – A Cool Wind
takács Quartet
5 AuGuST 2008tORONtO summER musiC, WALtER HALL, tORONtO, CANADAChristos hatzis – In the Fire of Conflict
Denise Djokic (cello)Ryan scott (perc)
25 AuGuST 2008ZivkOviC iNtERNAtiONAL summER musiC ACADEmy, NEuWiED-ENGERs, GERmANyChristos hatzis – Fertility RitesChristos hatzis – In the Fire of Conflict
Beverley Johnston (percussion)
28 SEPTEMBER 2008AuCkLAND tOWN HALL, AuCkLAND, NZJohn Psathas – Four Ancient Greek SongsJohn Psathas – Abhisheka: String Orchestra
Auckland Chamber OrchestraPeter scholes (conductor)
17 OCTOBER 2008RyERsON uNitED CHuRCH, vANCOuvER, BC, CANADAChristos hatzis – Everlasting Light
vancouver Cantata singersAnne-Julie Caron (marimba)Eric Hannan (conductor)
5 NOVEMBER 2008DEvENtER, NEtHERLANDsJohn Psathas – Kartsigar
New Zealand string Quartet
8 NOVEMBER 2008PAsiC, AustiN CONvENtiON CENtER, AustiN tX, usAJohn Psathas – One Study One Summary
Pedro Carneiro (marimba)
17 NOVEMBER 2008WEiLL RECitAL HALL, CARNEGiE HALL, NEW yORk, Ny, usAGareth Farr – The Horizon from Owhiro Bay
Henry Wong Doe (piano)
5 DECEMBER 2008CENtRE iN tHE sQuARE, kitCHENER, ON, CANADAChristos hatzis – Rebirth
kitchener-Waterloo symphony stephen Dann (viola)Joana Carneiro (conductor)
8 JANuARy 2009WALtER HALL, tORONtO, ON, CANADAChristos hatzis – In the Fire of Conflict: Percussion Quartet
torQ Percussion Ensemble
20 JANuARy 2009AtHENs CONCERt HALL, AtHENs, GREECEChristos hatzis – Winter Solstice
Camerata Orchestra of Athens Constantinos siskos (horn)Alexander myrat (conductor)
24 JANuARy 2009viLNius CONGREss HALL, viLNius, LitHuANiAJohn Psathas – Psyzygysm
Giunter Percussion
6 FEBRuARy 2009ADAm CHAmBER musiC FEstivAL, st. JOHN’s mEtHODist CHuRCH, NELsON, NZGareth Farr & Richard Nunns – He Poroporoaki
New Zealand string QuartetRichard Nunns (taonga puoro)
14 –21 MARCh 2009CAPitAL E NAtiONAL ARts FEstivAL, tHE OPERA HOusE, WELLiNGtON, NZGareth Farr – Kia Ora Khalid
Dave Armstrong (writer)sara Brodie (director)
16 MARCh 2009AuCkLAND FEstivAL, BAPtist tABERNACLE, AuCkLAND, NZGareth Farr – Kembang Suling
Bridget Douglas (flute)Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba)
20 MARCh 2009ROuNDHOusE tHEAtRE, yALEtOWN, vANCOuvER, BC, CANADAGareth Farr – Pagan Prayer
kokoro Dance Evan mitchell (conductor)vivian Houle (soprano)
26 MARCh 2009muNiCiPAL tHEAtRE, NAPiER, NZJohn Psathas – Olympiad XXVIII
New Zealand symphony Orchestra Pietari inkenen (conductor)
27 MARCh 2009tENRi CuLtuRAL iNstitutE, NEW yORk, Ny, usAJohn Psathas – Mal Occhio
Flexible music
3 APRIl 2009City RECitAL HALL ANGEL PLACE, syDNEy, NsW, AustRALiAJohn Psathas – Stream 3
modern music EnsembleDaryl Pratt (director)
28 APRIl 2009siCHuAN CONsERvAtORy OF musiC, CHENGDu siCHuAN, CHiNAJohn Psathas – Helix
NZtrio
30 MAy 2009BANG, CRAsH, sPLAsH, PERCussiON mARAtHON, PORtuGALGareth Farr – DialogueGareth Farr – TangaroaJohn Psathas – Ukiyo
Pedro Carneiro (percussion)Jeremy Fitzsimons (percussion)
30 JuNE 2009ZELtsmAN mARimBA FEstivAL 2009, HARPER HALL, APPLEtON, Wi, usAChristos hatzis – In the Fire of Conflict: Solo Percussion
Beverley Johnston (percussion)
29 July 2009sONNtAGskONZERtE im sPiEGELsAAL, BERLiN, GERmANyChristos hatzis – Old Photographs
Jung trio
30 July 2009GuitiNG FEstivAL 2009, GuitiNG POWER viLLAGE HALL, GuitiNG POWER, ukJohn Psathas – One Study One Summary
simone Rebello (percussion)
31 July 2009WALtER HALL, tORONtO, ON, CANADAChristos hatzis – String Quartet No. 2, The Gathering
Penderecki string Quartet
8 AuGuST 2009CHRistCHuRCH CAtHEDRAL iN tHE sQuARE, CHRistCHuRCH, NZGareth Farr – Illumina
the Jubilate singersGrant Hutchinson (director)Helen Charlton (soprano)
6 SEPTEMBER 2009LA FEtE DE LA musiQuE At tREmBLANt, DOWNtOWN mONt-tREmBLANt, QuEBEC, CANADAChristos hatzis – Arabesque
Angèle Dubeau (violin)La Pièta
9 SEPTEMBER 2009WEstmiNstER CHuRCH, WiNNiPEG, mANitOBA, CANADAChristos hatzis – Mirage?
manitoba Chamber Orchestra Dame Evelyn Glennie (percussion)Anne manson (conductor)
14 OCTOBER 2009HENRy H stAmBAuGH AuDitORium, yOuNGstOWN, OH, usAChristos hatzis – Redemption: Book 1
Pacifica QuartetCitymusic ClevelandDavid Allan miller (conductor)
31 OCTOBER 2009ELDER HALL, ADELAiDE, sA, AustRALiAJohn Psathas – Olympiad XXVIII
Elder Conservatorium symphony Orchestrakeith Crellin (conductor)
27 & 29 NOVEMBER 2009OPERA BERLiOZ, mONtPELLiER, FRANCEChristos hatzis – Telluric Dances
Gilles Loulier (oboe soloist)Orchestre National de montpellierLawrence Foster (conductor)
Premieres and selected performances
Photographs, clockwise (overleaf): Christos Hatzis
dawns his new ‘Aussie’ hat • martyn Wood from Kia Ora
Khalid, Gareth Farr’s new children’s opera, march 2009 •
Serj Tankian with John Psathas, march 2009 (Photo: Carla
Psathas) • Promethean Editions feature in Victorious,
spring 2009, Alumni magazine for victoria university of
Wellington, NZ • Percussionists Lenny Sakofsky, Thomas
Guldborg, Larry Reese, Pedro Carneiro, Jeremy Fitzsimons
& Lance Philip after performance of Psyzygysm by John
Psathas, Wellington, NZ, June 2008. (Photo: michael
Norris) • Pianist & composer Mike Nock enters Australian
Jazz Hall of Fame, melbourne, Australia, April 2009
(Photo: timothy Bateson)
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