Work
For Violin, Violoncello and Piano
for piano trio
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About
For Violin, Violoncello and Piano was completed in 1999 for the final year of my Masters degree. It was first performed at the Nelson Composers Workshop that year by Mark Menzies, Katherine Hebley and Donald Nicholson. Here it received the Workshop prize, and later in the year the work also received the main prize in the Victoria University School of Music Composition Competition.
The piece follows no programmatic 'storyline' but moves rather within shifting emotional sound-worlds. The opening is very 'inward', and the intensity eventually builds and explodes into areas of anger or yearning, or maybe something far more subconscious and indefinable. Moments of beauty surface above the intensity, and the journey ends having come full circle - introspective, transcendent, resigned.
Penelope Axtens Notes taken from NZTrio - Spark, Morrison Music Trust MMT2066
Performance history
Performed by the NZTrio