Annual American Composers Update

Daniel McCarthy is Associate Professor of Music in Theory and Composition at Indiana State University, currently on sabbatical; Visiting Associate Professor of Composition at Depauw University; and Instructor of Composition, Computer Music, and Theory at the Interlochen (MI) Arts Camp. He has won grants from the Indiana Arts Commission and Indiana State University and has received commissions from Indiana State University, Michigan State University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Played first in Brataslava was Dark Towers, with the Slovak Radio Symphony, under Robert Stankovsky, June 14, 1997. Cort McClaren, marimba, and Edward Bach, trumpet, presented Infinity at the University of North Carolina, Nov. 20, 1997. 1997 premieres at Indiana State University included Razdraz, with Jimmy Finnie, marimba, and Paul Bro, saxophone, at the Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival (Oct. 8); and Legacy, with the university's Symphonic Wind Ensemble, led by John Boyd, for the dedication of the Center for Performing and Fine Arts (Oct. 8).

In 1997 conducted by the composer, Finnie and the Indiana State University Percussion Ensemble performed Concerto for Marimba, Percussion, and Synthesizers at the Interlochen Center for the Arts (June 24), and at the Band and Orchestra Directors Clinic, Chicago (Dec. 18). On Aug. 14, 1997, Barratt Stees and Keith Aleo played Bundles of Sticks at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

The Call of Boromir; French horn and marimba; Bundles of Sticks; bassoon and percussion; both by McClaren Publications. Infinity; trumpet and marimba; C. Alan Publications; Harmonizer; versions for orchestra and for electric violin and synthesizers; Dark Towers; orchestra; Concerto for Keyboards; piano and synthesizers; all by MMB Music, Inc..

Shadow Chasers CD, with Michael Burritt, marimba; New Music for Trumpet CD, with Bach; Percussion Music of Daniel McCarthy CD; McCarthy's Electro-Acoustic CD; all by Capstone Records.

For more complete information, see Daniel McCarthy's entry in our Composers Bureau Online.