It’s official! Vanessa Tam, Charmian Keay and I are off to Paris on November the 20th with the help of the New Zealand/France-Friendship Fund. We are putting on a concert on December the 7th at the Cité Universitaire with a new string orchestra, Orchestre 2021 which will be conducted by Elizabeth Askren. She is Attachée Culturelle at the United States Foundation in Paris. I will be writing a fifteen minute work for String Orchestra over the next couple of months for the concert. Vanessa and Charmian will be playing their violins in the concert. They will also be doing some informal chamber music with Nigel Keay’s String Quartet during our 18 days there. I’m so excited!!

Hi guys! I’ve just been commissioned by Chamber Music New Zealand to write a work for piano and violin. It will be performed by John Chen and Julia McCarthy in September 2007 in their 16 concert tour of NZ.

I just got back from the ADAM International Cello Festival and Competition in Christchurch. I had a fantastic time there meeting people, listening to music and hanging out. I heard my composition “Games” in the Finals Gala Concert played by Hee Young Lim from Korea.