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PERFORMANCE
Current Positions | Casual Orchestra Work | Freelance Performance
Solo & Chamber Music | Discography
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Current Positions
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Casual Orchestra Work
- Cleveland Orchestra, Extra Percussion
- Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Substitue Timpani and Extra Percussion
- Erie Philharmonic Orchestra, Acting Principal Timpani
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Freelance Performance
- Recitals
- Collaborations
- Musical theater
- Church music
Mr. Bassett is available for freelance performance opportunities in northeast Ohio. Please contact him directly: matt@matthewbassett.net
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Solo & Chamber Music
Selected Upcoming and Past Performances:
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Faculty Recital at the Cleveland Institute of Music, April 6, 2008 at 4:00pm
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Faculty Recital at the Cleveland State University, February 12, 2008 at 8:00pm
- Collaboration with CSU Professor, John Perrine
- Concert will be broadcast live on WCLV 104.9FM
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Faculty Recital at the Cleveland State University, October 8, 2005
- Program:
- Variations on Luther's Hymn by Stanley Leonard
- Cyngus (The Swan) from Constellations by Dan Locklair
- Five Songs for Voice and Marimba by Lynn Glassock
- Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? by Aaron Copland, Adapted M & K Bassett
- Mourning Dove Sonnet by Christopher Deane
- Dantreume Leu Pliska (Pre-Recollections of War) by James Oliverio
- All the Things You Are by Jerome Kern (Arranged for tsolo timpani by M. Bassett
- With:
- Kathleen Bassett, Soprano
- David Brown, Organ
- Charles Carleton, Contrabass
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Modus Ensemble, Cleveland Museum of Art Gala Concert Series, February 2005
- Le Bal Masqué, Cantate Profane by Francis Poulenc
- With Christopheren Nomura, Baritone
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Faculty Recital at Case Western Reserve University, May 2004
- Program:
- Psappha by Iannis Xenakis
- 2 Little Pieces: Canticle, Noël by Takashi Yoshimatsu, Adapted by M. Bassett
- The Apocryphal Still Life by Christopher Deane
- Divertissement by Alex Orfaly
- Misty by Erroll Garner, Arranged for solo timpani by M. Bassett
- The Glow Worm by Paul Lincke, Arr. John B. Quick
- Chopsticks, Traditional, Arr. Charles Owen
- With:
- Kathleen Bassett, Piano
- Greg Akagi, Eric Drotning, Chester Englander, and John Martinich, Percussion
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Akron Lyric Opera Theatre, Gala Chamber Music Concert, March 2003
- Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinsky
- Dead Elvis by Michael Daugherty
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Faculty Recital at Case Western Reserve University, May 2001
- Program:
- Canticle by Stanley Leonard
- Ich bin Welt abhanden gekommen by Gustav Mahler, Arr. Gary Werdesheim
- Prelude from Suite No. 1 for Cello in G Majoor by J. S. Bach
- Rhapsody for Timpani and Percussion Trio by Alex Orfaly (Premiere Performance)
- With:
- Chester Englander, Brandon Podjasek, and Gabe Sobieski, Percussion
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Kent/Blossom Chamber Players at the Cleveland Museum of Art, July 1998
- Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Béla Bartók
- With:
- Jerome LaCorte, Percussion
- Brad Blackham and Joela Jones, Piano
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Summergarden Series at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Summer 1992
- Four4 by John Cage
- U.S. Premiere performance of this work
- Mr. Cage attended the performance
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Discography
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Apollo's Fire
- Handel: Messiah (ONDA)
- Montiverdi: Christmas Vespers (Koch #TBA)
- Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 23 (Koch #7575)
- Mozart: Symphonies 35 & 41; Don Giovanni Overture (Koch #7574)
- Mozart: Requiem (Koch #7685)
- Noels and Carols from the Old World (Koch #7582)
- More Information: Apollo's Fire
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Cleveland Pops Orchestra
- Live at the Pops: A Decade of Favorite Performances (Pops Label)
- Music to Grow On (Pop Label)
- More information: Cleveland Pops Orchestra
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Blossom Festival Band
- Blossom Festival Band, Loras John Schissel, Conductor (SKU: BFB)
- More information: CO Store
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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Rhapsodie: JoAnne Falletta, Conductor (BPO CD-07)
- More information: BPO Store
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Cleveland Orchestra
- Lieberson: Drala (SKU 4576062)
- More information: CO Store
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Current Positions | Casual Orchestra Work | Freelance Performance
Solo & Chamber Music | Discography
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©2007 Matthew Bassett
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