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Concert Music

 

Symphony Orchestra and Laptop Orchestra - Very Pointy

Winner of the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award 2014

Performed by RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Dublin Laptop Orchestra at the Irish National Concert Hall, Dublin.

Very Pointy
RTE National Symphony Orchestra and Dublin Laptop Orchestra
 
 

Dublin Laptop Orchestra with This Is How We Fly - Aoibhinn Cronan, Big Pat's, Port Mhairtin Sheamuis

The Dublin Laptop Orchestra perform drones and rhythms on networked laptops in collaboration with the contemporary folk group This Is How We Fly.

The video below is an excerpt of my piece from a concert at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

Aoibinn Cronan, Big Pat's, Port Mhairtin Sheamuis
Dublin Laptop Orchestra with This Is How We Fly
 
 

Large Ensemble - Sidechain

Instrumentation: fl/picc, oboe, Bb clarinet, marimba, violin I/II, viola, cello, double bass

Performed by fellows of the Bang on a Can Summer Festival 2013 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA).

Sidechain
Bang on a Can Summer Festival
 
 

Large Ensemble and laptop orchestra - Recommended by Dentists

Instrumentation: fl/picc, Bb clarinet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, percussion (electronic drum pads), 6-person laptop orchestra

Performed by Crash Ensemble and Dublin Laptop Orchestra, at Free State VII, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland.

Recommended by Dentists (excerpt)
Crash Ensemble and Dublin Laptop Orchestra
 
 

Renaissance Vocal Ensemble - One Dancing

Performed by GallicantusWords are from Gertrude Stein's Orta or One Dancing. Performed at the Princeton Sound Kitchen, Princeton, NJ.

One Dancing
Gallicantus (Renaissance Vocal Ensemble)
 
 

Saxophone Quartet - Twisting the Rope

Based on a traditional Irish tune of the same name, the sax quartet are basically turned into one large set of uilleann pipes.

Performed by Prism Saxophone Quartet at the Princeton Sound Kitchen, Princeton, NJ.

Twisting the Rope
Prism Saxophone Quartet
 
 

Tenor Saxophone and Delay - Alphabetics

performed by Kendra Emery at Paul Robeson Center, Arts Council of Princeton, NJ 

Alphabetics
Kendra Emery (Tenor Saxophone and Delay)
 
 

String Quartet - Line Drawing

Winner of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition 2017.

Performed by Mivos String Quartet at Princeton Sound Kitchen, Princeton, NJ and Skellig String Quartet at West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Bantry, Cork.

Line Drawing
Mivos String Quartet
 
 

String Quartet and Clarinet - Yah-Ya-Yah-Ya

Commissioned as part of winning the Jerome Hynes Young Composers' Award 2013

Performed by Con Tempo String Quartet and Paul Roe at the Irish National Concert Hall, Dublin

Yah-Ya-Yah-Ya
Con Tempo String Quartet and Paul Roe
 
 

Percussion Quartet - Untitled (DIY Gamelan) 

for Flower Pots, Glass Bottles, Vibraphone, Bass Drum, and other bits and pieces

Written for students at the So Percussion Summer Institute, Princeton NJ

Untitled (DIY Gamelan)
So Percussion Summer Institute