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DANIEL McCARTHY (b. 1955)

Daniel McCarthy's 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: www.DMcCarthyComposer.com

WORKS

Chamber
About Leaving (soprano and piano) New!
All the West Was Moving, Version 1 (bassoon/string quartet)
All the West Was Moving, Version 2 (string trio, piano)
American Dance Music (brass quintet with 1 percussion)
BeatMusik (bass duet) Coming Soon!
Beaton (cello duet)
Breathe (soprano saxophone/piano)
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)
Chamber Symphony No. 4: Towers of Power (saxophone and winds with percussion) New!
Children of the Corn (brass ensemble) New!
Concerto for Keyboards (solo piano/CD accompaniment)
Dance on Wahbekaness (solo marimba)
Event Horizon (brass quintet)
Fire, Dance, and Wahbekanetta (string quartet)
Flight (solo B-flat clarinet)
Harmonizer (solo violin/CD accompaniment)
Infinity (trumpet/percussion duet)
Knock Yourself Out (tuba/euphonium ensemble + 1 percussion)
KraftWerk (tuba/percussion duet)
Mirror of Galadriel (solo piano)
Razdraz (alto saxophone/marimba duet)
RimbaDance (marimba and percussion duet)
Rimbasly (work III - marimba and percussion ensemble)
Rimbasly (work V - marimba and piano)
Song of Middle Earth (solo marimba/multi percussion with percussion ensemble)
Song of Summer (SSAA choir/chamber ensemble)
Stomp! String Quartet No. 5 (string quartet)
Swords of Power (multi percussion duet)
Tales of the Donner Expedition (woodwind quintet)
Testament (viola/piano)
Time Out of Mind (solo piano)
Treebeard (soprano, tenor, piano, CD accompaniment)
Two Artist Profiles (string orchestra) Coming Soon!
Two Pieces for Trombone Choir Coming Soon!
Two Pieces for Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble
UrbanScapes (solo piano with CD accompaniment)
Visions and Apparitions (flute/percussion duet)
Visions in Funk (string quartet)
Visions of the Anointed (string quartet)
Wild and Peaceful (alto saxophone, vibraphone, and string trio) Coming Soon!
Xyprexia (solo marimba with percussion ensemble)
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
Liquid Moon
Loon-Wolf (solo tuba/band)
Prisms
Rimbasly (work IV - solo marimba with wind ensemble)
War Is Kind (symphonic band, SATB choir, piano)

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)
At the Edge (youth orchestra)
Chamber Suite for Viola (solo viola, chamber orchestra)
Chamber Symphony No. 3 for Clarinet and Orchestra
Child Spirit, The (Christmas Cantata)
Five Songs from the Summit (full orchestra w/ electronic accompaniment)
Gothica: Architectures for Orchestra (full orchestra)
Harmonizer (full orchestra)
Light Up The Sky (full orchestra)
Rimbasly: Concerto No. 1 for Marimba and Orchestra
Towers (full orchestra)
Turn the Page (orchestra w/ electronic accompaniment or w/ electric guitar) Coming Soon!
Two Artist Profiles for String Orchestra Coming Soon!
Underwood: Concerto No. 2 for Marimba and Orchestra Coming Soon!
Windows: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra

Percussion
The 9's (solo timpani with electronic accompaniment) New!
Balance of Power (percussion duet)
Bundles of Sticks (bassoon and multi 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)
Infinity (trumpet and marimba/vibraphone duet)
Knock Yourself Out (percussion and tuba/euphonium ensemble)
KraftWerk (tuba and percussion duet)
Razdraz (alto saxophone and marimba duet)
RimbaDance (marimba/percussion duet)
Rimbasly (work I - solo marimba with CD accompaniment)
Rimbasly (work II - solo marimba with orchestra)
Rimbasly (work III - solo marimba with percussion ensemble)
Rimbasly (work IV - solo marimba with wind ensemble)
Rimbasly (work V - solo marimba with 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)
Underwood: Concerto No. 2 for Marimba and Orchestra Coming Soon!
Xyprexia (solo multi-percussion w/ percussion ensemble 6)
WarHammer (solo marimba with CD accompaniment)