The Mondavi Center Young Artists National Competition has announced a new commission for a solo violin work by Delos composer Sean Hickey! At the Mondavi Center Young Artists National Competition, we are proud to support young artists in the early stages of their careers, providing scholarships to support their musical studies as well as valuable…
I have the great pleasure of writing this, at least part of it, on a moving train cutting through the Bohemian countryside. Central European clichés lay just beyond the window: frost-laden fields, misty rivers, ruined castles, red-brown villages squeezed into narrow valleys, a mangy dog sleeping atop a stone wall. I am having a beer…
Bruce Hodges of The Juilliard Journal has a new review for Sean Hickey: Concertos and Juilliard alumni Dmitri Kouzov and Alexander Fiterstein. “In this recording of Sean Hickey’s beautifully understated Cello Concerto (2008), Dmitry Kouzov (Artist Diploma ’05 and teaching assistant to Joel Krosnick from 2006-09) plays it with grace and thoughtfulness…Kouzov combines a warm,…
WWFM’s Cadenza program features national and international artists, conductors and composers on a weekly basis, and recently featured Delos artist Sean Hickey talking about his new release Sean Hickey: Concertos: https://s3.amazonaws.com/delos-artists/Cadenza349-Hickey.wav
TheArtsDesk‘s Graham Rickson has a new review for our Sean Hickey: Concertos recording: “Sean Hickey’s 2007 Cello Concerto solves the problem of balancing soloist with orchestra by keeping the accompaniment spare and light… recalling several well-known 20th century cello concertos – those by Walton and Shostakovich come to mind. Like them, Hickey enjoys unusual sound…
American Record Guide’s September/October Issue is filled with positive reviews for Delos releases, the first of which features a quick, to the point, review of Sean Hickey: Concertos: “These two concertos are lively, attractive works in an outgoing, highly listenable style, scored with sensitivity and exciting to listen to. Both soloists are highly competent, as…
Jerry Bowles has an extensive new profile of composer Sean Hickey and his new Delos CD Sean Hickey: Concertos on Sequenza21.com. Below are a couple of quotes, but this is definitely one you’ll want read all the way through: “ The release of his Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and Concerto for Clarinet on Delos…
The second issue of the I Care If You Listen digital magazine is officially out, and within you’ll find a wonderful new review for Sean Hickey: Concertos: “Right from [The Cello Concerto] first movement’s searingly agitated opening flourish from the orchestra and the dramatic, sweeping cello statement that follows, the listener is aware this is…
ASCAP has a new “Audio Portrait” of composer Sean Hickey. Within the portrait he discuses working with the St. Petersburg Symphony, why he wanted to write a clarinet concerto, and talks about his Celtic influences. Have a listen below to the portion where he talks about the two Concertos on his Sean Hickey: Concertos recording:…
Gramophone Magazine’s August 2013 publication features a praise-filled review of the new Sean Hickey: Concertos recording: “Sean Hickey’s two big three-movement concertos give their soloists a huge range of extended passages, riffs and cadenzas with which to stand up and out against often explosively colourful orchestral support (with frequent solo opportunities for the woodwinds and…
David Coombs gives four stars to Sean Hickey — Concertos, saying “Two great new concerti from an interesting new voice”… “He is, first and foremost, a brilliant young composer whose style is in the heritage of fairly traditional structures and harmonic vocabulary; “These two concerti give us a wonderful glimpse into Hickey’s compositional style but…
Classical Lost and Found‘s Bob McQuiston has a new review and recommendation of Sean Hickey — Concertos for classical fans and audiophiles alike: “one of America’s up-and-coming composers judging from an earlier highly successful CD of his chamber music (2005), and the two concertos on this new Delos release. “Both of the concertante pieces are…
Classical-Modern Music reviewer Grego Applegate Edwards has a new review of Sean Hickey — Concertos on his blog: “American composer Sean Hickey (b. 1970) comes through as a talent to be heeded on the two-work recording of his music, Concertos … This is music that has everything going for it — melodic, heroic solo parts,…
The June Scene Magazine publication features a wonderful review of our Sean Hickey — Concertos recording: “American composer Sean Hickey comes out swinging with this new recording, which features two impressive compositions, one written for cello and the other for the clarinet. Conceived in a neo-classical style, which embraces the expansive melodic breadth and layered…
If you’re an I Care If You Listen reader, you should be pretty familiar with their “5 questions to” segments they run with composers and performers. Well, they’ve turned the questions towards new Delos composer Sean Hickey in regards to his new Sean Hickey — Concertos release. Here’s one of the questions and answers from…
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