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Yvette Audain  

A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps – alto sax quartet version

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2011
for four alto saxophones

Eric Biddington  

A New Zealand Fable

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2007
a short movement for flute and piano

Craig Utting  

Birds at Sea

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1993
for three treble recorders

Dorothy Buchanan  

Clarinets Apart

 Year: 1980
ensemble pieces for clarinets

Craig Utting  

Elegy

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1985, r. 1993
for treble recorder and piano

Yvette Audain  

Grooves Unspoken

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2009
for saxophone and piano

Ryan Youens  

Guardians of the North

Duration: 06' 20" Year: 2007, r. 2009
wind orchestra

  • Programme Note

    Guardians of the North is a work for wind orchestra commissioned by the Opononi Summer School. It was written to celebrate the school but also to introduce and/or make more familiar New Zealand music to the participants. Because of this, it was written in an accessible yet challenging style in the hope to encourage interest in new music, and more specifically, New Zealand music, which lacks music for this timbre.

    The summer school is set in the Hokianga, where New Zealand’s first Maori, and second European, settlements were established. Since then, no other place in New Zealand carries such rich and storied past. Maori legend has it that two taniwha, Arai-te-uru & Niwa, were situated at the entrance of the harbour to protect it from invading waka. Arai-te-uru was placed on the south head, and Niwa at the north head. They would stir the waters and lash out at the waka, ceasing their entry. These two taniwha were the … Guardians of the North.

    This work was funded jointly by the Opononi Music School and Creative New Zealand.

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Natalie Hunt  

Hawk

 Year: 2010
for clarinet quartet

Denise Hulford  

Hi-Jinks

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1981
for flute and piano

Jodi Chen  

Invisible waves

Duration: 04' 25" Year: 2002
for solo flute

  • Programme Note

    Invisible Waves, inspired by the Orewa Beach in Auckland, imitates the evening sea waves, sound of the seagulls accompany the sunset. The melodic material derives from a set of four-note A, G#, F, and D. The ascending scale-like motif appears several times to imitate the flow of sea waves.

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