Dr David Cashman
PhD, MMus, GradCertAdEd, BMus
Dr David Cashman is a Sydney-based pianist, educator, researcher, and advocate. His area of research is live music performance and music industry. He is an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide and a founding member of the Regional Music Research Group.
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Doppleganger
The Escher Set
This composition juxtaposes an industrial and machinelike off-beat synth with the highly organic sounds of modern jazz.
Personnel: David Cashman Wurlitzer electric piano and composer/arranger, Waldo Garrido Bass, Ed Rodrigues Drums, Lee McIver Trumpet, Richelle Booth Sax, Marc Brown Trombone, Greg Simmons, Mixing Engineer
Recorded at Western Sydney University.
The Fragrant Evening
The Escher Set
This composition was inspired by the fragrant evenings of the Central Coast of New South Wales.
Personnel: David Cashman Piano and composer/arranger, Waldo Garrido Bass, Ed Rodrigues Drums, Lee McIver Trumpet, Richelle Booth Sax, Marc Brown Trombone, Greg Simmons, Mixing Engineer
Recorded at Western Sydney University.
Videos
Morning Prayer
With Kristina Kelman
An old song of mine given a new treatment with Dr Kristina Kelman.
Personnel: David Cashman Piano, Kristina Kelman Voice, Waldo Garrido Bass, Ed Rodrigues Drums, Richelle Booth Sax
Deuxieme Arabesque I
Cécile Chaminade
One of my favourite French late-romantic composers, Cécile Chaminade. She's often overlooked, I guess partly because she embodied the late Romantic at at time when Debussy and Ravel were looking forward to the twentiethcentury. Her gender, unfairly, probably had something to do with it too.
Pianist: David Cashman. Recorded at Western Sydney University
Piano Sonata in E♭ Hob. XVI/49: I
Joseph Haydn
I have a weakness for Haydn. He's one of classical music's cheerful jokers, if you're in on the fun. This E♭ Sonata is a personal fave. Written in 1789/90, it's Haydn at the height of his powers, writing happy, joyful music.
Pianist: David Cashman. Recorded at Western Sydney University