Work

Programme Note

This work’s gravitas (characterising quality or attribute) refers to the phenomenon in music where the most prominent or audible elements at any moment in a piece differ from those most important to its construction. (The latter often behave as poles to which the former gravitate.)

Gravitas was composed during the 2010-11 Jack C. Richards/Creative NZ/New Zealand School of Music Composer Residency at the request of Hamish McKeich and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Performance History

	13 May 2011	Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with conductor Hamish McKeich at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington
		Hamish McKeich    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
	28 May 2011	Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with conductor Hamish McKeich at the Auckland Town Hall, in Auckland
		Hamish McKeich    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Awards

• SOUNZ Contemporary Award (2011)
  

  Gravitas was a finalist in the 2011 SOUNZ Contemporary Award