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Adam Chamber Music Festival 2017 - Iris Dreaming

Joanne Roughton-Arnold as Robin Hyde in 'Iris Dreaming'

Joanne Roughton-Arnold as Robin Hyde in 'Iris Dreaming' Photo: SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music, video still

A concert given by NZTrio in Nelson's Theatre Royal. The main work, Iris Dreaming,  is a short opera by Gillian Whitehead with a libretto by her many-time collaborator Fleur Adcock. It's based on the life of the writer Robin Hyde, whose real name was Iris Wilkinson.

For this the trio is joined by London-based New Zealander Joanne Roughton-Arnold.

And there are two other wonderful and relatively new works … by David Hamilton and Claire Cowan.

David Hamilton's piece The Faraday Cage and Claire Cowan's Ultraviolet were both commissioned in 2015 by NZTrio.

 

  • David HAMILTON: The Faraday Cage

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    7:00 PM.NZTrio performs 'The Faraday Cage' by David Hamilton, a work they commissioned in 2015. Read more Audio

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  • Claire COWAN: Ultraviolet

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    7:00 PM.NZTrio performs 'Ultraviolet' by Claire Cowan, a work they commissioned with CMNZ in 2015. Read more Video, Audio

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  • Gillian WHITEHEAD: Iris Dreaming

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    6:00 PM.Soprano Joanne Roughton-Arnold joins NZTrio to perform the NZ premiere of Gillian Whitehead and Fleur Adcock's short opera, 'Iris Dreaming', based on the life of Robin Hyde. Read more Video, Audio

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David HAMILTON: The Faraday Cage;

Claire COWAN: Ultraviolet;

Gillian WHITEHEAD: Iris Dreaming

Joanne Roughton-Arnold (soprano), NZTrio: Justine Cormack (violin), Ashley Brown (cello), Sarah Watkins (piano)

Recorded in Theatre Royal, Nelson by RNZ