Music
Okuru
For violin and piano
Okuru was written in 1979, while I was composer-in-residence for Northern Arts, United Kingdom and a Fellow of Newcastle University.
About the work
On one level the composition is a 4-section working out of a complex mensural canon, and on another is my response to the arrival of spring after a particularly rigorous winter which I spent in an isolated cottage on the Northumbrian moors, north-west of Newcastle.
Score and recording
The score and part were published in 1991.
Contemporary Australian Violin: thirteen compositions for solo violin — publication
A recording was released on CD as part of a major project to record new Australian music.