Aaron CASSIDY

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from toxin (1998)

 

current projects 

chronological listing  2005   2004   2003   2002   2001   2000   1999   1998

listing by instrumental forces  solo   chamber  

MP3 excerpts are provided only as samples.  Full-length recordings and scores of all works are available by contacting info@aaroncassidy.com.

   
 

1998

garden of forking paths

[ four alto saxophones ]

Commissioned by the Ancia Saxophone Quartet, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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t o x i n

[ for amplified ensemble: alt fl (picc), ob (eh), hpschd, vln, vc ]

Premiere at June in Buffalo Festival for Emerging Composers 1999:  Patti Monson, fl/picc; Jacquie LeClair, ob/eh; Clemens Merkel, vln; Jonathan Golove, vc; Amy Dissanayake, hpschd; Erik Oņa, cond.

Included in reading session by Ensemble Intercontemporain, April 1999.

Finalist in 1999 ASCAP Young Composer Awards.

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1997

Relief Construction

[ for large wind ensemble : 3 3 3 2 / 0 4 2 1 / 4 sax / pf / 6 perc / 2 elec. bass gtr. ]

Finalist in 1998 ASCAP Young Composer Awards.

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stentoria

[ solo saxophone, resonating chamber, optional electronics and amplification ]

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Double String Quartet

[ 4 vln, 2 va, 2 vc ]

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