Work
Piano Trio
for piano trio
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About
One winter morning, a short walk from the marae at Waihi, on the southern shore of Lake Taupo, I stood on the shore to watch the sun rise. Behind me, a waterfall lead to a small stream that flowed into the lake, imposing its own patterns on those of the lake. The water was uniformly grey, but as the sun rose, for a moment the tops of the ripples were golden, with darker valleys between, before the whole area was flooded with light. So the ideas behind this trio have to do with the changing perspectives of patterns in water - in the bubbling of streams, the tumble of a waterfall, in the spiralling eddies where stream meets lake at sunrise.
In the opening movement, a group of short themes and ideas initially form a mosaic-like section, which recurs in developed and varied forms around more reflective passages. The second movement reverses the first, in that slow, sustained sections are interrupted by more energetic material, and the final movement draws all the previous ideas together.
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the New Zealand Trio with funding from Creative New Zealand
Dedication note
For the New Zealand Trio
Contents note
in two movements
Performance history
24 Jul 2005: Performed by the NZTrio at Mills Reef Winery Tauranga
06 Feb 2007: Performed by the NZTrio
16 Dec 2008: Contemporary Visions 11
14 Jun 2015: Te Kōkī Trio | Tauranga
Performed by the NZTrio at the Kenneth Myers Centre, at the University of Auckland