Sean Hickey is an American composer, born 1970 in Detroit, Michigan, and currently based in New York. As a teenager he took lessons in electric guitar. At Wayne State University, Hickey's composition teachers included James Hartway and James Lentini. He has been commissioned by a number of musicians and organizations including for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the St. Petersburg Symphony, Michala Petri, Avi Avital, the Fine Arts Quartet, and the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra. His first commercial recording, Left at the Fork in the Road, was released in November 2005 on Naxos American Classics. Featuring a selection of his chamber and orchestral works, the album broke the Billboard Top 100 Classical Chart and was praised as "substantive and savvy" by the magazine Gramophone. In May 2013, an album of Hickey's clarinet and cello concertos was released on Delos. The album features cellist Dmitry Kouzov and clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein, along with the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Lande. The record was subsequently reviewed by NewMusicBox, which called the clarinet concerto "a formidable work". Hickey's album Cursive was released in May 2014 on Delos, and is a retrospective of much of the composer's work for piano and chamber music combinations. Performing on the album are pianist Philip Edward Fisher, violinist Julia Sakharova, flutist Brandon Patrick George, violist Anne Lanzilotti, and harpist Meredith Clark. A further recording, by Greek guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou, was released on Delos in 2016, and features the second recording of his "Tango Grotesco", for solo guitar. 2017 saw the release of A Pacifying Weapon, a concerto for recorder and orchestra commissioned by recorder virtuoso Michala Petri, and premiered by the Royal Danish Conservatory Orchestra led by Jean Thorel. The premiere and recording took place in September 2016 in Copenhagen, released in 2017 on Our Recordings, and again in 2019, also on Our, as "American Recorder Concertos". He has seen three other recordings of his works in 2019. Hickey is also a published poet and writer of music reviews and travelogues. He is an ASCAP member and is published by Cantabile Press. In addition, he is the Senior Vice-president, sales and business development, for Naxos of America, and speaks regularly at colleges, conservatories and universities throughout the world on his work, new media and musician entrepreneurship.
Chamber Ampersand violin, piano Avatar violin, clarinet, piano Barri Gotic flute, guitar Concerto for Clarinet & String Quartet B-flat Cl, 2vln, vla, cello Flute Sonata flute, piano Fool's Errand Bb clarinet, piano Foolscap cello, piano Funny Papers accordion, piano Granfalloon bassoon, piano Grecian Bend 2 vlns, vla, vcl Horse's Mouth Bb trumpet, horn, trombone Le Visage de Vence flute, piano Left at the Fork in the Road flute, Bb Clarinet, bassoon Longitude viola, piano Lunula flute, English horn Mala Strana violin, horn in F Mandolin Canons mandolin, guitar Mock Tudor recorder, guitar Pair of Pants flute, Bb Clarinet Paradise Out of Focus flute, oboe, Bb Cl, horn, bsn Pied a Terre flute, viola, harp Portage of Paz viola, guitar Rumble Strip randomized ensemble Runes and Alphabets flute, Bb trumpet, harp, marimba, xylophone, percussion Second String Quartet - Common Knowledge 2 vls, vla, vcl Second String Trio violin, viola, cello Sonata for Viola & Piano - Jefferson Chalmers viola, piano String Quartet 2 violins, viola, cello String Trio violin, viola, cello Terroir 2 violins, viola, cello and piano Tiergarten Bb clarinet, violin, piano Unintended Consequences flute, violin, cello, piano Viola Sonata "Jefferson Chalmers" viola, piano Yurodivi Bb clarinet, piano Choral A Mind of Winter SATB chorus Agnus Dei flute, 2 ob, 2 bsns, 2 tpts, 2 trb, SATB chorus, cello, bass Magnificat SATB chorus, organ One Song, America, Before I Go SATB a cappella chorus Orchestral A Pacifying Weapon - Concerto for Recorder and Orchestra Atahualpa Concerto for Cello and Orchestra solo cello, orchestra Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra clarinet, string orchestra Dalliance 2fl, 2 ob, 2 Bb cl, 2 bsn, 3 hn, 2 Bb tr, 2 trb, tuba, timp.,triangle, b.d, cymbals, tamb, harp, str. Hitherto full orchestra Mandolin Concerto solo mandolin, 10 winds, percusion, double bass Sagesse fl, ob, 2 Bb cl, bsn, 2 hn, perc Str, ms, tenor Sinfonietta flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass Single Malt vlns I, vlns II, vlas, vcls, db. Symphony large orchestra Symphony for Strings string orchestra Solo Archipelago piano B-flat Bb clarinet Beara violoncello Cursive piano Dance Apotheosis violin Dolmen piano Fallows piano Feeling Gravity's Pull oboe Fluff flute Hill Music: A Breton Ramble piano I'm About to do to You Piano In Memoriam Kurt Vonnegut piano Insufficient Means oboe Ipso Facto piano Let the Sea Make a Noise cello, or any solo instrument Night Café piano Ostinato Grosso piano Portage II Bb clarinet Portage III - Sarabande for Piano piano Portage IV clarinet in A Reckoning piano Saying Makes It So piano Scree piano Song piano Suite After Milhaud piano Tango Grotesco guitar The Birds of Barclay Street piano Two Epigrams bassoon Under the TreesThe River Laughing piano What the Fisherwoman Saw piano Voice Nocturne mezzo-soprano, piano To the Wars soprano, clarinet, cello
