Martin Gaughan
Forthcoming Performances
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Past Performances
Audio
Night Pieces 1 for solo violin (2006)
Columba Aspexit 2 clara schumann sri lankan goddess Prologue Haiku (octaves) Haiku (sunset glow) Haiku (wind cuts my flesh) Haiku (ethereal) Night Pieces 3 Haiku (ticking) elegy flowers of this painful world Song 1 - End of Winter Night Pieces 2 Night Pieces 4 Columba Aspexit 1 Columba Aspexit 3 River of Stars 3 River of Stars 5 River of Stars 6 Haiku (breathless hysteria) Haiku (c) Haiku (cantus) Haiku (flowing) Haiku (hymn) Haiku (lament) Haiku (nocturne) black roses crucifixus eros memoriam orchid Interlude Song 5 - The Steps of the Moon Song 3 River of Stars 1 River of Stars 2 River of Stars 4 hysteria Beloved 2. wild, hysterical & clangerous (fotpw) 3. slow, breathless & hesitant (fotpw) 4. in the steps of the moon (fotpw) 1. slow, breathless & hesitant (lyre) 2. tranquil, expressive & without accents 7. profoundly still pain and moonlight rose petals and thunder sorrow stay Immortal Beloved 3 1. pain & moonlight (fotpw) Immortal Beloved 1 Immortal Beloved 4 3. ethereal & still (threnody) 4. shimmering, hypnotic & gently moving (harmonics) 5. haunting, febrile, nervous, slow & still 6. shimmering, serene & sonorous (haiku) Immortal Beloved 2 List of Works
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Martin Gaughan Biography
Born in York of Irish descent, Martin is a composition graduate from Trinity College of Music. His musical influences are many: Claudio Monteverdi, George Crumb, Anton Webern, George Benjamin, Luigi Dallapiccola, Morton Feldman, Hector Berlioz, Robert and Clara Schumann as well as the darker pieces of Mozart and Beethoven. Martin's music has been described as dark, mysterious and passionate; it is both new and contemporary, disturbing and beautiful. Martin also writes poetry, which has won prizes and has been published in two anthologies. His poetry is nocturnal, violet and crimson, honest and profound.
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