Patrick Shepherd is passionate about new music, music education, and technology; and has called New Zealand home since moving here from the UK in 1991.
His string quartet 'Glittering Fragments' was inspired by a poem of the same name, by the Japanese poet Hara Tamiki. It paints a post-apocalyptic landscape. Shepherd describes it as mirroring Tamiki’s poem, “with flashes of activity and then opaque harmonies burning red, then dulled.”
It was finished in 1994 and premiered by the New Zealand String Quartet, to whom it’s dedicated. This recording is from a concert in the Adam Concert Room, New Zealand School of Music, in 1995.
22 Oct 2013
