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Composed by Isaac Shatford (Year 13, St. Andrew's College, Christchurch)

This is a live recording performed as a demonstration performance in the 2014 National Final in Christchurch featuring:

Isaac Shatford, violin
Grace Stainhope, violin
Caroline Norman, viola
Lavinnia Rae, cello

Isaac says about his piece: “Based on an episode from the hit television show ‘Adventure Time’, Frost and Fire is a String Quartet telling the heart-breaking story of two lovers destined to remain apart. The work journeys through a range of emotional highs and lows as it harmonically progresses, before ending in an unrelated key and fading to nothing, as if everything has changed and cannot be reversed.”

Composition adjudicator, Philip Norman, comments on the work saying, “Your writing is beautifully paced, each section exerting its presence for an impeccably judged duration. There is an unusually clear sense of direction in the writing for a young composer. This is a creatively interesting and performable composition and thoroughly deserving of the winner’s ribbon.”
This is Isaac’s first piece of chamber music and he is delighted at its success.

The 2014 Original Composition Awards are presented in association with SOUNZ and CANZ.

The NZCT Chamber Music Contest is the longest running youth music competition in New Zealand and is the only nationwide chamber music competition for young secondary school musicians and composers in the country. It is presented annually by Chamber Music New Zealand. Find out more here: http://www.chambermusic.co.nz