Senior Lecturers Kevin Field and Roger Manins
Senior Lecturers Kevin Field and Roger Manins

Fermata lecture Event as iCalendar

(Creative Events, Music)

02 May 2018

5 - 6:30pm

Venue: Music Theatre, School of Music

Location: 6 Symonds Street, Auckland Central

Host: School of Music

Cost: Free admission

Contact email: creative@auckland.ac.nz

Founded by Associate Professor Allan Badley and Senior Lecturer Davinia Caddy, the series aims to showcase the distinctive specialisms and issues pertaining to the study and history of music, featuring our staff's exciting research.

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Programme

Senior Lecturers and jazz artists Kevin Field and Roger Manins present at this week's Fermata lecture.

Pianist, composer and Senior Lecturer Kevin Field has collaborated with some of the top international names in jazz including bassist Matt Penman, drummer Obed Calvaire  and guitarist Nir Felder, who all feature on his latest album The A List. He has performed concerts in the UK, USA, and Australia, and features on over 30 albums including Nathan Haines’ releases The Poets Embrace and Vermillion Skies and recordings by such artists as Whirimako Black, Jennifer Zea, and The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. In addition, Kevin has released several of his own albums including 2012’s Field of Vision on the Warner Music label. 

Senior Lecturer Roger Manins is widely regarded as one of the premier saxophonists in the Southern hemisphere. He performs regularly throughout New Zealand and Australia, and is featured on over 30 albums as a sideman with six releases of his own. Also active in the music community,Roger is co-founder and Artistic Director of CJC Creative Jazz Club Aotearoa, and helps coordinate the Auckland Jazz festival.

Roger and Kevin will each discuss and demonstrate their respective research. Roger will focus on a restricted framework for the creation of composition and improvisation within set sonic diameters, while Kevin, off the back of his recent sell-out doctoral performance, will acquaint us with the Modes of Limited Transposition as a vehicle for effective and innovative tension within a jazz improvisational context.

The two Senior Jazz Lecturers will also perform together during the session.