as published in PAN PIPES, Volume 95, Number 2

Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy accepted a position at the University of Akron (OH) School of Music as Chair of the Composition and Theory Section.  Formerly co-director of the Contemporary Music Festival at Indiana State University, McCarthy now directs the American New Arts Festival and the Akron New Music Ensemble.  He has made guest appearances as Composer-in-Residence at East Central University, Michigan State University, Delta College, in Michigan, and Cleveland State University this year.  At the Interlochen (MI) Arts Camp, McCarthy, who continues as a composition instructor, recently was appointed Music Director/Conductor of the Interlochen Festival Orchestra.  His publisher (see Publications) and artist representative is C. Alan Publications, in Greensboro, NC. 

Premieres

On >October 30, 2002, the Michigan State University Band and Chorus premiered War is Kind.  The Interlochen High School Concert Band presented Fun, Fire, and Fury, August 4, 2002.  Heard first with the Akron Youth Symphony Orchestra was Five Songs from the Summit, May 20, 2002.  The first performance of You, Who Sang in Summer, occurred with Quorum, November 1, 2002, at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Performances

The Society of Composers National Conference, held in Akron, April 20, 2002, included pianist Alexandra Mascolo-David in Time out of Mind:  Six Tales of Middle Earth.  Conducted by the composer, Barrick Stees, of the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Interlochen Chamber Winds played Chamber Symphony No. 2 for Bassoon and Winds.

Publications

An American Girl, At the Edge, Light up the Sky, all for orchestra; Chamber Symphony No. 2 for Bassoon and Winds; Fun, Fire, and Fury, and Comets in Winter Sky, both for band; Time out of Mind and Urban Scapes; both for piano; War is Kind; all by C. Alan Publications.

Recordings

All The West Was Moving; Stees, bassoon, and the Arianna Quartet; Centaur Records Nostalgica.  Chamber Symphony No. 1 for Marimba and Winds; Mark Ford and the University of North Texas Wind Symphony, Eugene Corporon, conductor; Klavier Records Time Pieces.  Spiral Passages; Nathan Daughtery, WarHammer; McClaren Media Records.

Further Information

• 1998-1999 Annual American Composers Update
• 1996-1997 Annual American Composers Update
• SAI's Composers Bureau Online.
• SAI's Music for Young People section.
• Further information, including audio samples, may be found at the composer's website