FISH IN WATER

Daniel Chua (Professor and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong) studied music at Cambridge University, as an undergraduate at St. Catharine's College, then as a graduate at St. John's College, where he worked on a music analytical thesis entitled The "Galitzin" Quartets of Beethoven (published by Princeton in 1995). After a year as a Henry Fellow at Harvard, he returned to St. John's as a Research Fellow and later became the Director of Studies in Music there. During this time he worked on his second, more historically orientated, book, Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (published by Cambridge in 1999). Before joining The University of Hong Kong as Head of the School of Humanities and Professor of Music, he was the Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at King's College London.

"Fish in Water for oboe and piano was written for Nicholas Daniel and Julius Drake way back in 1982 when they had just started out as a duo. They were giving concerts made up entirely of animal pieces and I was asked to compose something suitable; I had to choose an animal for their musical menagerie. I'm not sure why I chose fish - I've never really had one (except for dinner!). However, I should add that the piece came before the title and one should not image a fishy programme behind the music." - Daniel Chua

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