Philippe Brunet, Anne-Marie Cherry, and Henry Van Engen give this performance of my Prelude and Fugue for Brass Trio, at the Atlantic Music Festival in Waterville, Maine.

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Prelude and Fugue for Brass Trio

The Carpe Diem String Quartet performs "Going Ahead" from my string quartet. The title takes its name from Glenn Gould's "So You Want to Write a Fugue?" This piece won the 2014 Harry G. Archer Undergraduate Competition in string quartet writing at Carnegie Mellon University.

Recorded by Adam Shield and mastered by Riccardo Schulz, April 2014, Carnegie Mellon.

Going Ahead (Fugue)

Ping perform's "O Sacrum Convivium" at a concert in York, PA. "O Sacrum Convivium" uses the original plainchant melody as the prime ingredient in an imaginative polyphonic texture.

O Sacrum Convivium

Ping performs Salamon's madrigal setting of Christina Rossetti's poem "A Birthday" live at "Now Is the Month of Pinging."

Recorded April 2014

My Heart Is Like A Singing Bird

A series of tableaus of Manhattan during Gay Pride Month of 2011. This performance is by the Spanish ensemble The Flugel Quartet.

I. The Joy (Forlane)
II. Larry Kramer's Play (Sarabande)
III. The Joy (Tambourin)

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June Dances

Sean Salamon's setting of a Buddhist prayer, modified slightly by the composer.

As long as space remains
And as long as sentient beings remain,
until then, may I too remain
and dispel the mysteries of the world.

Ping live in concert at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, New York. Ping presents a repertoire of striking variety, singing music spanning from the renaissance to today and including many pieces written specially for the ensemble.

As long as space remains

Ping performs Salamon's setting of the creation hymn from the Rigveda. 

Who knows for certain?
Who shall here declare it?
Whence was it born, whence came creation?
The gods are later than
this world's formation;
Who then can know the origins of the world?
None knows whence creation arose;
And whether he has or has not made it;
He who surveys it from the lofty skies.
Only he knows-
or perhaps he knows not.

Adrienne Lotto, soprano; Mariko Reid, alto; Garrett Eucker, tenor; Sean Salamon, bass.

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Who knows for certain?

The final two movements of "Words in the Mist," a setting of poems by Alfred Starr Hamilton which here is given its premiere by soprano Adrienne Lotto, with Alyssa Wang, violin; Cecilia Orazi, cello; Allyson Edington, clarinets; and Jason Yoder, percussion.

Watch the full recital here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs9Pl5f-rf8

Words in the Mist: Thursday and Vocalise to Finish

"Dark Corner" from "Words in the Mist," a setting of poems by Alfred Starr Hamilton which here is given its premiere by soprano Adrienne Lotto, with Alyssa Wang, violin; Cecilia Orazi, cello; Allyson Edington, clarinets; and Jason Yoder, percussion.

Watch the full recital here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs9Pl5f-rf8

Words In The Mist: Dark Corner

Florian Helgath (conductor), Heather Cotrell (violin), and the Munich-based Via-Nova-Chor premiere this piece, which I wrote for the conductor in 2014. The piece is a loose adaptation of the 15th century lovesong, "Mille regretz," which tells of a lover's sorrow upon departing his love on a long, maybe terminal, voyage.

The original song is sung at the beginning. My adaptation begins at 3:38.

Mille regretz (for Violin and Choir)

Sean Salamon's setting of Psalm 47, sung by the composer, joined by Levente Medvecsky on pipe organ.

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Psalm 47 (for singer and organ)

Scott Cuva and Henry Van Engen premiere my song cycle of Dana Gioia poems.

The Present

Twenty-five-year-old composer Sean Salamon's music has been performed by ensembles, both professional and amateur, in 20 countries around the globe. In 2013, Salamon founded Ping, an early music/new music vocal quintet with whom he has given concerts across the USA, garnering praise from critics and audiences. Ping has collaborated with artists as diverse as hip-hop artist Frzy— and a concert series with Chatham Baroque in which the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review called Salamon's performance "superb... as stylish as [he was] expressive."

Salamon holds a master's degree in composition from London's Royal Academy of Music (2015), and a bachelor's from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Music in Pittsburgh (2014). While studying at Carnegie Mellon, he was the music director for the CMU Originals, an award-winning all-male a cappella group, and the composer-in-residence and baritone choral scholar at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh.

Salamon works during the day as a headhunter in Midtown Manhattan and, during his free time, enjoys taking photographs of his friends.

Sean Salamon

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