Work

Programme Note

Scored for guitar, flute and Bb clarinet, …vers libre… (meaning “free verse”) threads through a succession of musical landscapes, punctuated by colouristic events and frequent upheavals in pulse (governed by metric modulations), never pausing to cast an eye backwards. The work was premiered at the Nelson Composers’ Workshop in 2002 and has received subsequent performances at the 2003 ACL Forum in Seoul, Korea, and at the neue musik aus neuseeland festival at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in 2006. Dylan Lardelli has played the guitar part in all performances. …vers libre… is published by Waiteata Press and appears on a CD of works by emerging New Zealand composers.

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Performance History

	22 May 2003	Performance at the 2003 Asian Composers League Forum in Seoul by Dylan Lardelli (NZ – guitar), Hiyeun Lee (flute) and Younggun Lee (clarinet), at Paiknam Concert Hall, Hanyang University
	25 Jul 2002	Performed by Kirstin Eade (flute), Dylan Lardelli (guitar), Andrew Uren (B flat clarinet) and Ewan Clark (conductor)
		Andrew Uren    Dylan Lardelli    Kirstin Eade
	30 Jun 2006	Performance at the “three generations” concert at the “neue musik aus neuseeland” mini-festival at Musikhochschule Lübeck, organised by Dieter Mack. Performed by Dylan Lardelli (NZ – guitar), Constanze Lobodzinski (flute) and Igal Levin (clarinet).
	24 Oct 2008	Performed by 175 East at the concert “picnic at limbo ledge” in Christchurch
		175 East
	26 Oct 2008	Performed by 175 East at the concert “picnic at limbo ledge” in Auckland
		175 East
	14 Apr 2009	Broadcast by Eva Light at the radio programme: Light on New Zealand Composers. Performed by Kirstin Eade (flute), Dylan Lardelli (guitar), Andrew Uren (B flat clarinet) and Ewan Clark (conductor).
		Andrew Uren    Dylan Lardelli    Kirstin Eade
	19 Apr 2012	Performed by Dylan Lardelli (guitar), Aviva Endean (clarinet) and Kim Tan (flute) at the “New Music from New Zealand” concert at Richmond Uniting Church, Melbourne, Australia.
		Dylan Lardelli