Aaron CASSIDY

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from The Pleats of Matter (2007)

 

chronological listing  2010.09   2008.7    2006.04   2003   2002   2001.00   1999.97

listing by instrumental forces  solo   chamber   ensemble

MP3 excerpts are provided only as samples.  Full-length recordings and scores of all works are available by contacting mail [at] aaroncassidy.com.

   
 

2010

Second String Quartet

[ 2 vln, va, vc ] 

For the JACK Quartet.  Commissioned by Südwestrundfunk for the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010, with additional support from the Practice-Led and Applied Research Grant scheme of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) as well as research grant support from the Music Department of the University of Huddersfield.

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memento / memorial

[ solo oboe ] 

For Peter Veale & Ensemble SurPlus, in memory of James Avery. 

Video

l.d._ p.c. (t.c.h.)

[ solo piano ]  On Schumann's A.S.C.H. - S.C.H.A.

Commissioned by Benjamin Binder for his Schumann Nouveau Carnaval project.  To be recorded, 2010-11.

2009

And the scream, Bacon's scream, is the operation through which the entire body escapes through the mouth (or, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion)

[ ob (+ musette, english horn) / cl (+ E-flat, bass) / tr / tbn / hrp / perc / vln / va / cb ]  With extractable works for tr solo, tb solo, & ob/cl duo. 

For ELISION.  World premiere:  ELISION, Manuel Nawri, cond.  Kings Place, London, UK, March 2010.

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Being itself a catastrophe, the diagram must not create a catastrophe (or, Third Study for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion)

[ oboe (+ musette, english horn) / clarinet (+ E-flat, bass) ] 

For ELISION. 

World premiere:  ELISION (Richard Haynes, clarinets; Peter Veale, oboes) Kings Place, London, UK, April 2009.

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