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Title: Elegy to the Spanish Republic
Commission: 2018
Completed: 2020
Instrumentation: flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), trumpet, vibraphone, piano, violin, viola, cella, and double bass
Premiere Location: October 9, 2021 at the St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.
Premiere Ensemble: 21st Century Consort
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Title: Mysteries of the Horizon
Commission: 1984
Completed: 1987
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: August 2, 1987 at the Aspen Music Festival
Premiere Ensemble: Aspen Festival Players
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Eugene O’Brien has received awards and prizes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy in Rome, and from BMI, ASCAP, and the League of Composers/ISCM. He has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Fulbright, NEA and other fellowships, and has been commissioned by the Fromm Foundation, the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation, by the Meet-the-Composer / Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund, and by many American, Asian and European performers and ensembles. His music has been heard in numerous festivals and concerts by prominent orchestras, ensembles and soloists throughout this country and abroad. Active in the performance of new music, he co-founded the Cleveland professional new music ensemble Reconnaissance, served on the production board of the Contemporary Music Forum in Washington, D.C., and directed the Indiana University New Music Ensemble. Recorded on the CRI, Golden Crest, Crystal, Capstone and other labels, his works are published by Codex Nuovo, G. Schirmer, and Boosey & Hawkes. Mr. O’Brien studied composition with Robert Beadell, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Iannis Xenakis and John Eaton at the University of Nebraska, Case Western Reserve University / Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Köln, Germany. He has been a member of the composition faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 1987.