It was a huge honour to have my work for piano trio, convergency, premiered by the immensely talented NZTrio at the University of Auckland School of Music on Friday 6 May. This work was inspired by an artwork by Nelson artist Lee Woodman who is also a family friend. I entered convergency into NZTrio’s 2021 AudioVisualise composing competition and had the privilege of being selected as one of the six winning works, from a pool of works submitted by tertiary students from around Aotearoa.
The Winners’ Concert was originally scheduled to take place in October 2021 but was postponed because of the Covid lockdown at the time. I was fortunate to be at the rescheduled concert in person as the other composers were spread across the country, but luckily there was a livestream which meant everyone could tune in. It was lovely to have my family watching and to read their messages during the interval – isn’t technology great. I was beyond thrilled with NZTrio’s performance of my work, what an absolute dream.
NZTrio has not permitted public sharing of the concert recording but if you’d like to hear their performance of convergency, please do flick me a message.
Very grateful for the opportunity!
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