Phd completion / Competition / Performances
Chris’s PhD was submitted on 14 November ’06, ending an arduous three years of academic work. The final year of study was unable to support composition, it being dedicated entirely to thesis research and write-up. However, 2006 did see some composition-related activities:
• circuit:spiral, a finalist in the 2006 Douglas Lilburn Prize, won the competition’s Panel Prize
• mandible was performed at the Juilliard School, New York, by bass clarinetist Sean Rice.
• string orchestra work aufsatz received a closed reading by the NZSO. The recording was made to broadcast standard by Radio New Zealand Concert.
•Vers libre… was played in the Three Generations concert of the Neue Musik aus Neuseeland festival at Musikhochschule Lübeck, Germany.