Name: The Present by Sean Salamon
Duration: 1 min 11 s
Description: Scott Cuva and Henry Van Engen premiere my song cycle of Dana Gioia poems.

Schola Cantorum of Saint Vincent Ferrer – New York City
James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

Sic Deus dilexit mundum á 7
Melchior Vulpius (1570-1615)

Sic Deus dilexit mundum,
ut Filium suum unigenitum daret:
ut omnis qui credit in eum non pereat,
sed habeat vitam aeternam.

God so loved the world,
that he gave his only-begotten Son:
that all who believe in him might not perish,
but have eternal life.
John 3:16

Recorded live during the Solemn Mass of Palm Sunday at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2022

Palm Sunday, 2022

Vulpius: Sic Deus dilexit mundum a 7

Performed by 15-year-old Rishi Mirchandani for 2014 CD "Nancy Galbraith: Strange Travels" on Centaur Records.

1. Allegro Con Brio

Performed by the Carnegie Mellon University Philharmonic on March 5, 2014

Infinitas (Live)

Yoğurtçunun Oyun Havaları (Dances of the Yogurt Maker) for String Quartet

8 dances from Silifke
I-Kekliği Düz Ovada Avlarım
II-Yayla Yolları
III-Ham Çökelek
IV-Türkmen Kızı
V-Açıl Ey Ömrümün Varı
VI-Bir Boyuna Baktım Bir De Yüzüne
VII-Silifke'nin Yoğurdu
VIII-Tımbıllı

Carpe Diem String Quartet

Yoğurtçunun Oyun Havaları (Dances of the Yogurt Maker) for String Quartet

Sequenza X For Trumpet And Piano Resonance LIVE

Bethanne Walker - flute
San Francisco Conservatory, October 2014

Lightning Rod was written, with admiration, for Bethanne Walker in October 2013. The work is the result of attempting to exploit some particular aspects of her virtuosity, which provide unusual freedom for the composer. The piece relies on the interplay between changing speeds of notes and textures that create the impression of being multi-layered within one instrument. The narrative of the music also hinges on a trajectory to extremes of register, with an acrobatic intensity that the performer must navigate. Additionally, the rhythmic language is highly precise and exploits the tension between mechanical accuracy in notation and natural human fluctuations that are part of the process of transforming the score into music.

Lightning Rod - for solo flute

Performed by the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic on March 4th, 2015 at Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, PA.

Athena

Tenor Taylor Rawley 
The Last Rose of Summer -Britten 
Performed March 20, 2015 in Kresge Theatre; Carnegie Mellon University

The Last Rose of Summer

Choir of the Church of Our Saviour
Paul J. Murray, Director
Dr. Giles Brightwell, Organ

19 December 2018

A Concert for Christmas

A child is born (Nestor)

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.

The Present

Sean Salamon

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