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Patrick Cassidy is an Irish orchestral, choral, and film score composer. Early life and education. Cassidy was born in Claremorris, County Mayo, Ireland. He received a BSc in applied mathematics from the University of Limerick in 1985 and supported his early compositional activities with a day job as a statistician and technology analyst. [1] Work.
Patrick Cassidy is Ireland’s most renowned living classical composer. In addition to classical music he also writes film scores. Patrick is best known for the aria ‘Vide Cor Meum’ originally composed for the film ‘Hannibal’, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Anthony Hopkins.
Patrick Cassidy is a classical composer specializing in opera, choral, and film scores. Patrick came into prominence with the release of the Children of Lir, the first major symphonic work written in the Irish language.
A collection of the 40 most beautiful arias composed by such greats as Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, Gaetano Donizetti, George Frideric Handel, Henry Purcell, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Jacques Offenbach and Patrick Cassidy.
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Composer Cassidy is best known for his Narrative Cantatas for orchestra and choir based on Irish Mythology. The Children of Lir released in September 1993 remained at number one in the Irish Classical Charts for a full year.
Patrick Cassidy was born in Claremorris, Co. Mayo. A trained mathematician, he is self-taught as a composer and works mainly in film and television. He is best known for his successful setting of The Children of Lir (1991), an oratorio which was performed and recorded by the Tallis Choir and the London Symphony Orchestra in 1993/94.
