Name: John Shephard - Kiss On A Ferris Wheel (2022) by Eliza Shephard
Duration: 4 min 48 s
Description: Performed by Eliza Shephard (flute) and Peter de Jager (piano) at Tempo Rubato in February 2023. World Premiere performance.

"Winter’s Journey" is an expressive piece that performers can have fun with. 
I chose the three haikus for Winter's Journey to tell a tale of friends waiting for the end of Winter, represented by two jovial night-time interactions and a beautiful icy evening.

I: fireworks and vocal extended techniques
II: drunken singing
III: harmonious singing at the moon, followed by percussive laughter

Commissioned and performed by Icon Trio as part of a larger project to set the haikus of Scottish poet Bruce Leeming to music.

Winter's Journey

Performed by Eliza Shephard (flute) and Peter de Jager (piano) at Tempo Rubato in February 2023. World Premiere performance.

John Shephard - Kiss On A Ferris Wheel (2022)

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Arranged for Glissando Headjoint, performed at the Australian National Academy of Music 2017

Robert Dick - Fish Are Jumping

The combination of two elements that form one gem is represented by the two horns, weaving within the orchestra as opal does within rock, close harmonies creating glimmering frequencies. The slow movement of ancient water is a melodious line shared between each soloist, which progresses to a beautiful stillness that shows off the upper range of the horn. In opposition to this, as human industry cuts around the opal veins, different timbres and bright embellishments are exposed within a mechanistic orchestra.
Commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and premiered in March 2021.

Opal: Double Concerto for Horns and Orchestra

Recorded by Campbell Banks (cello) and Leigh Harrold (piano) - 2022
This work is based around several themes and the idea of limitations. Each movement has a different limitation until later in the third movement where the cello finally breaks free and both instruments move into the flowing and limitless fourth.

John Shephard - Kiss On A Ferris Wheel (2022)

Eliza Shephard

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