Daniel Mccarthy composer

Daniel McCarthy's (b.1955) music is standard repertoire throughout the world, particularly for percussion, marimba, chamber, and symphonic band. His music is recorded on Centaur, d'note Classics, Gesparo, Klavier Records. A recipient of numerous awards and grants in composition, he has received four nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and the Grawemeyer Award.



McCarthy is currently Chair of the Composition and Theory Section at the University of Akron School of Music. He is the founder /Director of the American New Arts Festival in Akron, Ohio, founder of the Midwest Composers? Forum, and former Co-chair of the Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival. During the summer, McCarthy teaches composition at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Daniel McCarthy has been Conductor of the Interlochen Festival Orchestra, The Terre Haute Symphony Youth Orchestra, and has been guest conductor of The Cleveland Chamber Symphony, The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, and the Interlochen Arts Camp Symphonic Band, Concert Band, and Intermediate Band.



Website: http://danielmccarthy.net/



WORKS



Chamber

Beaton (cello duet)

Blithe Spirit (solo tuba/chamber ensemble)

Bundle of Sticks (bassoon/percussion duet)

Call of Boromir, The (horn/marimba duet)

Chamber Suite for Viola (solo viola/chamber orchestra)

Chamber Symphony for Marimba and Winds (solo marimba/chamber winds)

Chamber Symphony No. 2 for Bassoon and Winds (solo bassoon/chamber winds)

Chamber Symphony No. 3 for Clarinet and Chamber Ensemble (solo clarinet/chamber ensemble)

Concerto for Keyboards (solo piano/CD accompaniment)

Fire, Dance, and Wahbekanetta (string quartet)

Fligh t (solo B-flat clarinet) NEW!

Harmonizer (solo violin/CD accompaniment)

Infinity (trumpet/percussion duet)

KraftWerk (tuba/percussion duet)

Mirror of Galadriel (solo piano)

Razdraz (alto saxophone/marimba duet)

Song of Summer (SSAA choir/chamber ensemble)

Stomp (string quartet)

Testament (viola/piano)

Time Out of Mind (solo piano)

Treebeard (soprano, tenor, piano, CD accompaniment)

Two Pieces for Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble

Visions and Apparitions (flute/percussion duet)

Visions in Funk (string quartet)

Visions of the Anointed (string quartet)

You, Who Sang in Summer (soprano, chamber ensemble)



Concert Band

Comets in Winter Sky

Fun, Fire, & Fury

Grand Ledges: Vistas in Michigan

In Love's Autumn

KraftHammer

Led Page, The

Loon-Wolf (solo tuba/band)

Prisms



Jazz Ensemble

Age of Reason

Immovable Do

Moderns, The

SoundMass



Orchestra

American Dance Music (solo brass quintet, 1 percussion, & orchestra or chamber orchestra)

American Girl, An (full or chamber orchestra)

Chamber Suite for Viola (solo viola, chamber orchestra)

Five Songs from the Summit (full orchestra w/ electronic accompaniment)

Harmonizer (full orchestra)

Light Up The Sky (full orchestra)

Towers (full orchestra)



Percussion

Balance of Power (percussion duet)

Concerto for Marimba, Percussion & Synthesizers (solo marimba, percussioon ensemble 6, and CD accompaniment)

Dance Music (percussion ensemble 10)

Dance on Wahbekaness (solo marimba)

HammerStrength (percussion ensemble 10)

RimbaDance (marimba/percussion duet)

Rimbasly (solo marimba w/ CD accompaniment, concert band, orchestra, percussion ensemble, OR piano)

River is the Way (percussion ensemble 10)

Song of Middle Earth (solo marimba/percussion w/ percussion ensemmble 9)

Song of Middle Earth: The Percussion Music of Daniel McCarthy (CD)

Swords of Power (percussion duet)

Xyprexia (solo multi-percussion w/ percussion ensemble 6)