Work

Programme Note

Egyptian Ella and The Sheik of Araby have always been two of my favourite tunes to play as a jazz clarinetist. I have also dabbled in gypsy-influenced musics with a couple of friends in the folk instrumental band Doris. These influences have certainly come through in this piece, but mainly it was my work in music education that inspired me to write a piece with a Middle Eastern flavour, as among the many students with whom I am blessed is a tenor saxophonist from Turkey. Hence my choice of title, Hazine – pronounced ‘ha-ZEE-nay’ – being a Turkish word.

I have also been working to expand my own modal knowledge, in this piece choosing to explore several darker modes (locrian, for example) with which I am not as familiar as I am with the more common ones (such as dorian). Another scale I have chosen to feature is a Turkish makam.

Yvette Audain

Commissioned:

Requested by The Committee to write this piece for their 2008 Clocktower concert

Difficulty:

Advanced

Influences:

• Middle East
• Language and Literature
• Religious

Dedication:

Dedicated to Erinc Yikar

Performance History

	29 Aug 2008	Performed by Yvette Audain (tenor saxophone) at University of Auckland Clocktower, Auckland
	04 Feb 2009	Performed by Yvette Audain (tenor saxophone) at the Basement Theatre, Auckland, as part of the launch for the inaugural Auckland Fringe Festival Excerpts
	01 Mar 2009	Performed by Yvette Audain (tenor saxophone) at the University of Auckland Clocktower as part of The Committee’s concert ’Time’s Past’, presented in association with the inaugural Auckland Fringe Festival
	05 Jul 2009	Performed by Yvette Audain at the concert on opening night of Nelson Composers’ Workshop in Nelson
	06 Mar 2011	Performed by Yvette Audain (saxophone) at St Luke’s Church in Auckland, as part of the 2011 Auckland Fringe Festival
	07 May 2011	Performed by Yvette Audain (alto saxophone) as part of Printable Reality’s “In Voice and Music” series, at Pah Homestead, Hillsborough, in Auckland
	06 Jul 2011	Performed by Simon Brew (saxophone) as part of the 2011 Australian Clarinet and Saxophone Festival
		Simon Brew
	27 Oct 2012	Performed by Yvette Audain (soprano saxophone) at the Surrey Hills Music Festival in Surrey Hills, Melbourne, Australia.