Sean Hickey

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'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.

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".

Chamber Ampersand (2006) violin, piano Avatar (2005) violin, clarinet, piano Barri Gotic (2013) flute, guitar Concerto for Clarinet & String Quartet (2006) B-flat Cl, 2vln, vla, cello Flute Sonata (1994) flute, piano Fool's Errand (2004) Bb clarinet, piano Foolscap (2011) cello, piano Funny Papers (2003) accordion, piano Granfalloon (2004) bassoon, piano Grecian Bend (2014) 2 vlns, vla, vcl Horse's Mouth (2006) Bb trumpet, horn, trombone Le Visage de Vence (2011) flute, piano Left at the Fork in the Road (2003) flute, Bb Clarinet, bassoon Longitude (2013) viola, piano Lunula (2016) flute, English horn Mala Strana (2017) violin, horn in F Mandolin Canons (2005) mandolin, guitar Mock Tudor (2016) recorder, guitar Pair of Pants (2003) flute, Bb Clarinet Paradise Out of Focus (1992) flute, oboe, Bb Cl, horn, bsn Pied a Terre (2007) flute, viola, harp Portage of Paz (1997) viola, guitar Rumble Strip (2004) randomized ensemble Runes and Alphabets (1998) flute, Bb trumpet, harp, marimba, xylophone, percussion Second String Quartet - Common Knowledge (2018) 2 vls, vla, vcl Second String Trio (1996) violin, viola, cello Sonata for Viola & Piano - Jefferson Chalmers (2016) viola, piano String Quartet (1996) 2 violins, viola, cello String Trio (1994) violin, viola, cello Terroir (2014) 2 violins, viola, cello and piano Tiergarten (2019) Bb clarinet, violin, piano Unintended Consequences (2010) flute, violin, cello, piano Viola Sonata "Jefferson Chalmers" (2017) viola, piano Yurodivi (2012) Bb clarinet, piano Choral A Mind of Winter (2003) SATB chorus Agnus Dei (2007) flute, 2 ob, 2 bsns, 2 tpts, 2 trb, SATB chorus, cello, bass Magnificat (1993) SATB chorus, organ One Song, America, Before I Go (2017) SATB a cappella chorus Orchestral A Pacifying Weapon - Concerto for Recorder and Orchestra (2016) Atahualpa (2015) Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2008) solo cello, orchestra Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (2006) clarinet, string orchestra (string quintet in chamber version) Dalliance (2003) 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 (2015) full orchestra Mandolin Concerto (2010) solo mandolin, 10 winds, percusion, double bass Sagesse (2003) fl, ob, 2 Bb cl, bsn, 2 hn, perc Str, ms, tenor Sinfonietta (2010) flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass Single Malt (2015) vlns I, vlns II, vlas, vcls, db. Symphony ("Olympus Mons") (2012) large orchestra Symphony for Strings (1995) string orchestra Solo Archipelago (2002) piano B-flat (2011) Bb clarinet Beara (2001) violoncello Cursive (2011) piano Dance Apotheosis (2017) violin Dolmen (1999) piano Fallows (2012) piano Feeling Gravity's Pull (2010) oboe Fluff (2004) flute Hill Music: A Breton Ramble (2002) piano I'm About to do to You (What's Been Done to Me) (2013) Piano In Memoriam Kurt Vonnegut (2007) piano Insufficient Means (2019) oboe Ipso Facto (2019) piano Let the Sea Make a Noise (2018) cello, or any solo instrument Night Café (1993) piano Ostinato Grosso (2002) piano Portage II (2000) Bb clarinet Portage III - Sarabande for Piano (2000) piano Portage IV (2000) clarinet in A Reckoning (2011) piano Saying Makes It So (2016) piano Scree (2000) piano Song (1992) piano Suite After Milhaud (1994) piano Tango Grotesco (2001) guitar The Birds of Barclay Street (2001) piano Two Epigrams (1995) bassoon Under the Trees The River Laughing (1991) piano What the Fisherwoman Saw (2004) piano Voice Nocturne (2001) mezzo-soprano, piano To the Wars (2004) soprano, clarinet, cello

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.

Sean Hickey is an American composer, born 1970 in Detroit, Michigan, and currently based in New York.