Aaron Cassidy

composer | conductor

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from The Pleats of Matter (2007)

 

chronological listing  2011.09   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.

   
 

2011

A painter of figures in rooms

[ SSAATTBB ] 

For EXAUDI.  Commissioned by PRS for Music New Music 20x12 as part of the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad.

New Music 20x12 was initiated by Jillian Barker and David Cohen and will be delivered by the PRS for Music Foundation in partnership with the BBC, LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games) and Sound and Music.  New Music 20x12 is generously supported by Arts Council England, John S. Cohen Foundation, Creative Scotland, PRS for Music Foundation, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Wales, Incorporated Society of Musicians, Musicians Benevolent Fund, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, RVW Trust, Charlotte and Dennis Stevenson, Tolkien Trust, The Bliss Trust, Finzi Trust, John and Ann Tusa, Lilian Slowe, John Wates Charitable Trust and Richard Walduck.

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.

An article on the work by Tim Rutherford Johnson can be found on NewMusicBox, the online magazine of the American Music Center.

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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.  Recording available on the HCR label.

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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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site  updated:  11 October 2011