PhD music performed

Jeremy Mayall presents a concert showcase and live recording of original music composed for his PhD in music composition on Sunday.

More than a composer, Jeremy is also an instrumentalist and a producer with a compositional voice uniquely his own.

"My compositions attempt to defy boundaries by incorporating multiple genre influences," he says.

It is this crossing of genre boundaries that has become the focus of his doctoral composition studies, as he is researching the possibilities of cross-genre hybridity.

The concert showcase will feature new compositions written during Jeremy's period of PhD research, including The Norse Suite for viola and cello, The foggy field for trumpet and turntables, Push for Miles for electric bass and backing, and They say a word is dead, a suite for chamber orchestra.

Top musicians from across the North Island will gather for the concert and live recording.

Taking equal parts of contemporary classical music, jazz, rock, electronica and pop, Jeremy creates music that seeks to find balance in its diversity.

He regularly works performing and composing over a wide range of styles - writing pop songs, string quartets, and electro-acoustic soundscapes, and brings these multiple influences together in his film scoring work.

Jeremy recently performed as "J.Mayall and the Fluid Wall Ensemble" at the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival.

The concert starts at 7.30pm and will be held in the Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, University of Waikato. Entry is free.