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As I listened to media reports on the ownership of Young Nick’s Head, I began to wonder about the life of the real ‘Young Nick’, who first sighted this land from the deck of the ship Endeavour. What was life like on board the ship for the young boy, and how did it feel to sight the land? Various images came to mind, including a silhouette of land in the early morning light, or a murky shape barely visible through grey storm spray, or a dark smudge on a bright blue horizon. This piece was written with these images in mind.

For Young Nick was premiered by Wellington Youth Orchestra in 2003.

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2.2.2.2 2.2.3.1 T.3P.pno strings Percussion 1: Glock, Xyl, S.D. Percussion 2: Tamb, Sus.Cym, 2 Bongos, 4 Tom-toms Percussion 3: Tamb, B.D. (NB: Trombone 3 & Tuba optional)

intransigent (adj): uncompromising, stubborn, persistently irreconcilable, unyielding, intractable, dogged, ceding not an inch, never giving in, always having to have the last word. With this piece, the St Peter’s & St Mary’s Sinfonia won Best Performance of a New Zealand Work in the symphony orchestra category of the 2012 KBB Music Festival.

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for string Orchestra, ideally at least 6.6.4.4.2 but can work with fewer: minimum would be 4.4.3.3.1

This work is an exploration of the possibilities of the string orchestra as a body of sound, the orchestra at times acting like one giant super-instrument composed of intricately superimposed layers. Old textures are continually swallowed up, recycled and transformed, playing out a finely balanced tension between static and active, supple and brittle, strong and fragile. From a fluid, tangled haze, individual voices periodically emerge to assert some kind of nostalgic lyricism, but each time they are ultimately subsumed, swallowed up in an eerie, ambivalent mass of sound. Stylistically the music is varied and eclectic, weaving together the intricate, spidery lines of Ligeti, the delicate chordal sonorities of Messiaen, the caustic anger of Shostakovich and even the brooding menace of Anthony Watson.

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