Aaron Cassidy // music / 2003

from "the green is either" (2003-4)

chronological listing 2010.09 2008.7 2006.04 2003 2002 2001.00 1999.97

listing by instrumental forces solo chamber ensemble

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2003

"the green is either"

[ three trios for seven players. trio one: solo ob, solo vln, percussion / trio two: solo ob; va, vc / trio three: solo vln; fl, cl (without conductor) ]

For ensemble recherche (Freiburg). Commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemäßser Musik, Bludenz, Austria, December 2002. Premiere of complete version by Ensemble SurPlus at the Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemäßser Musik, Bludenz, Austria, November 2003.

Selected by Miami ISCM as official submission to ISCM World Music Days 2006, Stuttgart.

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Solos are extractable and are titled as follows:

“the green is or” (2002-3) [ solo oboe ] Premiered by Jaime González (ensemble recherche), Bludenz, Austria, November 2002. Radio broadcast by Österreichischer Rundfunk. Revised, completed version premiered by Christopher Redgate, May 2005, London, UK.

See also: Christopher Redgate, "Re-inventing the oboe," Contemporary Music Review, vol. 26, issue 2 (April 2007), pp. 179 - 188.

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“the green is where” (2002) [ solo violin ]

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a/grammatical study for three (quasi-)independent players (2002) [ violin, oboe, percussion ] Premiered by Ensemble SurPlus at the Schloss Solitude Sommerakademie, Stuttgart, Germany, August 2003.

Alternate version (2008) premiered by ELISION (Manuel Nawri, conductor), Cassidy Portrait Concert & Broadcast, ABC Ferry Road Studios, Brisbane, Australia, July 2008.

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ten monophonic miniatures for solo pianist

[ solo piano with extensive amplification of keys and fingers ]

First performance at June in Buffalo 2002, by Ian Pace. European premiere at St. Cyprian's Church, London, October 2002 (sponsored by BMIC), by Ian Pace. North American premiere of completed version at Anfiteatro Simón Bolivar, Mexico City, Mexico, August 2004, by Ian Pace.

Jurors' prize nominee at the Gaudeamus International Music Week 2004, Nora Mulder, piano.

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