Autumn 2024 – Spring 2025 News & Events

Performances

Pantelis Lykoudis, saxophone. TV Control Center, Athens, Greece. February 17, 2025. asphyxia

ELISION ensemble (Aaron Cassidy, cond.). Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik, Klagenfurt, Austria. 3 April 2025. Self-Portrait, Three Times, Standing (15.3.1991–20.3.1991) and The wreck of former boundaries (2016) for electric lap steel guitar and electronics

ELISION. Joshua Hyde, alto saxophone. Hrvastki Dom, Split, Croatia. 13 April 2025. The wreck of former boundaries (2016) for solo saxophone

ELISION. Daryl Buckley, lap steel guitar. Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig, Germany. 16 April 2025. The wreck of former boundaries (2016) for electric lap steel guitar and electronics

Das Neue Ensemble (Jessica Kuhn, cello). Klangbrücken Festival, Tonstudio Tessmar, Hannover. 4 May 2025. The Crutch of Memory (2004)

Conducting

Akademie der Künste, ‘Winter Music’ festival, Berlin, Germany. Work by York Höller. December 7, 2024

Ensemble Musikfabrik. Work by Dariya Maminova. Recording for Deutscher Musikrat/Wergo. Deutschlandfunk Köln. January 16–17, 2025

ELISION ensemble. Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik, Klagenfurt, Austria. 3 April 2025

Ensemble Incontri. Works by Boulez and Berio. Klangbrücken Festival. Richard Jakoby Saal, Hannover. 30 April 2025

Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) residency with ELISION. Works by Xenakis, Donatoni, Lim, and Mundry. Melbourne, Australia. 16–20 June 2025

Radio broadcasts

Radio portrait, “Strategien der Entfesselung – Der Komponist Aaron Cassidy”, hr2-Kultur, “Neue Musik/Klangkunst,” and SWR Kultur “JetztMusik,” January 30, 2025

Guest lectures/residencies

Erasmus+ Residency (two lectures [“A way of making ghosts. On self-portraits, musical and otherwise.” and “Form is a fluid. Material is a verb.”] and masterclasses in composition & conducting), Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik, Klagenfurt, Austria. 31 March – 4 April 2025

Current projects

25. April ’05 (in progress) for solo bassoon, commissioned by James Aylward

sonata for violin and piano (in progress) for Harry Ward and Alex Waite

A new text reflecting on the 10th anniversary of “Imagining a Non-Geometrical Rhythm.” [done.]

Other events will be added as details are confirmed.