Sean X. Quinn

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Described as ‘protean’ (Marc Yeats), ‘innovative, thorough, precise and imaginative’ (Richard Haynes), Sean Quinn is a composer, vocalist, and writer based between Melbourne and Berlin. More recently, his practices revolve around processes of accumulation and communication in composition; growing, extracting, learning, adapting; expanding upon itself from one form to the next while retaining a semblance of its past self. The body and its complexities are also key points of inspiration in his ongoing practice as a composer and performer.
 
Sean has worked in solo, electroacoustic, chamber and orchestral spaces during his career, proving to be an active and ‘formidable’ (Sounds Like Sydney) member of the national and international contemporary music scene. Many holds close collaborative partnerships with many internationally renowned performers, including clarinetist Richard Haynes (CH), flutist Eric Lamb (USA/OS), , institut .abeceda (SL), and has been commissioned with groups Ensemble Offspring (AU) soloists of Ensemble Musikfabrik and Studio Musikfabrik (DE) amongst others.
 
He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Arts Numbers & Letters (2023) and Chateau Orquevaux (2023) and has participated as a composer fellow in Ensemble Offspring’s Hatched HOME Academy (2021) and Hatched Composer Intensive in Sydney (2022), the New Music on the Point Festival in Vermont (2021) and the Impulse New Music Festival in Los Angeles (2021).
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Ordered by year. Most recent works appears first

Solo Instrument

Ocularia for solo bassoon (2021)
Understated matter for double-bell horn (2020)
The interference of forces from the beyond... for prepared guitar (2020)
Tempting offers for solo trombone (2020)
Proximity to the light... for solo guitar (2020)
Starling sandbox for solo piccolo (2020)
Blok short study in timbre - for solo percussion (2020)
Tint:lens for solo clarinet (2020)

Ensemble (Instruments or Voices) and Fixed Electronic Media

Manufacturers; things that are made to be broken for improvising ensemble of at least 4 performers and electronics (2020)

Chamber Group ( 2 - 4 instruments )

Activating shadows for clarinet and trombone (2020)
Screens ... between you and me ... (2020)

String Quartet

Screens ... between you and me ... (2020)

Ensemble (10 - 19 instruments)

Angler for Strings and Percussion (2018)
Activating shadows for clarinet and trombone (2020)
Angler for Strings and Percussion (2018)
Blok short study in timbre - for solo percussion (2020)
Manufacturers; things that are made to be broken for improvising ensemble of at least 4 performers and electronics (2020)
Ocularia for solo bassoon (2021)
Proximity to the light... for solo guitar (2020)
Screens ... between you and me ... (2020)
Starling sandbox for solo piccolo (2020)
Tempting offers for solo trombone (2020)
The interference of forces from the beyond... for prepared guitar (2020)
Tint:lens for solo clarinet (2020)
Understated matter for double-bell horn (2020)