Welcome to the website of James McCarthy, composer.

In case you missed their stunning performance, here is the film:
 
 
 
The jukebox also contains many new recordings and will open in a new window
so you can browse as you listen:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brief Biog:
James McCarthy (b. 1979) is a composer of opera, concert music, ballet music and music for theatre. He studied composition at Royal Holloway,University of London, with Simon Holt, Alasdair Nicolson, Brian Lock and Philip Cashian. He has received numerous commissions from many ensembles and musicians, including: Scottish Opera,  Canty, William Taylor, the Aberlour House Senior Choir and TangoDuo. Canty will be releasing From the Song of Solomon (James's composition for four sopranos and clarsach) on Linn Records in 2009.
 
 
 
 
 

 

Review:

"The excellent quality of Canty's performance set them apart. Their ensemble was sensitive, and their collective sound, while pure and delicately articulated, was succulent. It was almost as if their floating phrases were being eked from their bodies, received by the cavernous, divine space. As if the whole first half had been a dream, Canty processed out singing as they had begun, leaving behind them a blur of lingering echoes." (Anna Goldbeck-Wood in The Yorker, reviewing Canty's concert at the Afro-Saxon Soundclash, which culminated in a performance of From the Song of Solomon in York Minster, October 2008).