Music | Original Compositions & Piano Performances
Original Composition | Chamber Music
Original Composition | Chamber Music
Song for Peace (2015) for horn & string trio
Performed by Matt Ashton (hn), Sean Radermacher (vl), Benjamin Shantz (va), Lian Qiao (vc)
Song for Peace imagines a world with greater empathy and humanity towards distant cultures. It was written for Cultures in Harmony.
Score excerpt (pdf):
Original Composition | Chamber Music
Dances from Afar (2012) for violin and piano
Performed by Matt Pickart (vl) and Joseph Sheehan (pno)
I have vivid memories of days and nights in Ghana, West Africa, spent dancing with close friends and strangers. Dances from Afar is inspired by the flavor and intensity of these memories. Each dance is named after a location in Ghana.
I. Winneba
II. Keta
III. Circle
Score excerpts (pdf):
Vibraphone Loops (2012) for solo vibraphone and electronic tape
Performed by Lisa Pegher
Vibraphone Loops features a solo vibraphonist playing energetic, soulful melodies and rhythms that dance upon the accompanying tape part. The music is especially influenced by pianist Robert Glasper and composer Steve Reich.
Original Composition | Chamber Music
Little Dance (2009) for solo piano
Performed by Anoush Tchakarian
Little Dance delicately and tenderly brings forth notes touched by an imagined dance.
Score excerpt (pdf):
Piano Performance | Jazz
2016 Clazz International Music Festival Faculty Concert. Françoise Derissen & Jeremy Cohen, violins. Joseph Sheehan, piano. Carlo Bellucci, bass. Claudio Sbrolli, drums.
Music: 'A Night in Tunisia', by Dizzy Gillespie
Recorded live, August 1, 2016 at the 2016 Clazz International Music Festival, Jazz Session, Arcidosso, Italy.
Piano Performance | Hip-Hop
Shad Ali (mc) & Anqwenique Wingfield (vocals) with TRIO+ (Joe Sheehan, Jason Rafalak, Ryan Socrates).
Music: 'Thelonius' & 'The Light' (Common)
Recorded Oct. 24, 2014 @ the Groove Aesthetic 'Winds of the Sahel' show. Dance Alloy Studios, East Liberty, Pittsburgh, PA.
Piano Performance | Jazz
Benny's Tune by Lionel Loueke
Joe Sheehan, voice and piano
Recorded live, January 17, 2018 at a Faculty Recital, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Original Composition | Chamber Music
Farewell Songs (2008) for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
Performed by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Kevin Schempf, clarinet | Nathalie Shaw, violin | Norbert Lewandowski, cello | Conor Hanick, piano
Farewell Songs emanates from two memories that left a particularly vivid and deep impression on me.
I. Falling
Score excerpts (pdf):
II. A Lake
Original Composition | Chamber Music
Suspended in Perpetual Ascent (2006) for chamber orchestra
Performed by the Indiana University New Music Ensemble
Christian Capocaccia, conductor
Veronique Mathieu & Stanislav Pronin, violins
Suspended in Perpetual Ascent features two violin soloists woven into a background of continuously rising lines. The piece draws influence from the Baroque concertos, Gyorgy Ligeti's Melodien, and Italian futurist painting.
Score excerpt (pdf):