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‘His music courses with energy, driven along on high-octane rhythmic invention: it’s constantly diverting, constantly surprising. ’ The Guardian
The Observer recently described Philip Cashian as ‘a rewarding and highly individual composer’. His music has been performed and broadcast worldwide - recent performances have included the Ojai Festival (California), Musikmonat (Basle), the St.Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Esprit Orchestra (Toronto), Aldeburgh Festival, Spitalfields Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the BBC Proms as well as performances in Germany, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Holland, Sweden and China. In 2001 he was the featured composer in the Park Lane Group Young Artists Series. For their 1998 Shell UK tour the London Symphony Orchestra commissioned Night Journeys, a double concerto for timpani and percussion. Other recent commissions have included Spitbite (Britten Sinfonia), The House of Night (OSJ), Io (BBC National Orchestra of Wales), Three Pieces for chamber orchestra and Skein (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group) and Tableaux which the Northern Sinfonia commissioned for the 2003 BBC Proms and a European tour. In 2006 Sarah Nicolls gave the first performance of his Piano Concerto with the London Sinfonietta under Zsolt Nagy, a recording of which is due for release in 2007. Works for smaller forces include A Sea of Tales for Melinda Maxwell and Endymion, So lonely for Mary King and the Kreutzer Quartet as well as pieces for the Haffner Wind Ensemble, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, The New Music Players, Paul Watkins, Alan Hacker and the Schubert Ensemble. He has also worked with the choreographer Ian Spink and written for The Knack at ENO studio.He has a close relationship with the Composers Ensemble for whom he has written, to date, half a dozen pieces. In 2004/05 he was the composer in residence at the Centre for Young Musicians and has written numerous pieces for children and amateur musicians. Recordings of his music are available on the NMC, Usk, Riverrun and BGS labels. He teaches composition at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal Holloway College, University of London.
’Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra is refreshingly colourful and inventive, reminding us anew that he is a composer of abundant imagination and elegance.’Musical Times October 2004
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’I've never heard a Cashian piece that did not spring to individual, fetching life. More please!’Financial Times 02/06/04
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