Composer
Biography:
Aaron Cassidy, born in the United States in 1976, is a composer and conductor of growing international renown. His works feature in the programmes of leading specialists in contemporary music, including ELISION, Ensemble SurPlus, musikFabrik, Ictus Ensemble, ensemble recherche, 175 East, Kairos Quartet, Quatuor Diotima and JACK Quartet. Soloists such as Garth Knox, Ian Pace, Mieko Kanno and Christopher Redgate perform his music at renowned festivals (including Donaueschinger Musiktage, Ultraschall, Warsaw Autumn, Huddersfield, Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, Gaudeamus, Bludenz, June In Buffalo and ISCM World Music Days).
He has received scholarships and composition commissions from Südwestrundfunk, allerArt Bludenz, the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, the Capital Cultural Fund Berlin, the New York Foundation for the Arts, ASCAP, the American Music Centre, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Council and PRSF 20×12/London Cultural Olympiad 2012. Cassidy earned his doctorate in composition with a Presidential Fellowship at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) under his mentor David Felder.
In 2007, Aaron Cassidy joined the composition faculty at the University of Huddersfield and is also the coordinator of the MA programme at the university's Centre for Research in New Music. He previously taught at Northwestern University and Buffalo State College.
Albums:
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010:
