The Orphans & Poe Bryan Doherty
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Album-Release:
2025
HRA-Release:
16.05.2025
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- Bryan Doherty (b. 1983): String Quartet No. 1 “The Orphans”:
- 1 Doherty: String Quartet No. 1 “The Orphans”: I. Allegro 06:08
- 2 Doherty: String Quartet No. 1 “The Orphans”: II. Adagio 07:55
- 3 Doherty: String Quartet No. 1 “The Orphans”: III. Intermezzo 04:43
- 4 Doherty: String Quartet No. 1 “The Orphans”: IV. Moderato 03:51
- Three Poe Excerpts:
- 5 Doherty: Three Poe Excerpts: Foreword 01:52
- 6 Doherty: Three Poe Excerpts: I. To the Right and Left 04:07
- 7 Doherty: Three Poe Excerpts: II. A Feeling for Which I Have No Name 04:47
- 8 Doherty: Three Poe Excerpts: III. Even as it Was 04:12
- 9 Doherty: Three Poe Excerpts: Afterword 02:44
- The Thousand Injuries (from The Bells of Fortunato):
- 10 Doherty: The Thousand Injuries (from The Bells of Fortunato) 06:18
Info for The Orphans & Poe
A transformation: During the COVID-19 pandemic, when the world shut down and many lives were lost or changed forever, I experienced a serious transformation. A commitment to sobriety unleashed new creative forces. The world’s new normal of quiet and introspection led me to return to a more formal branch of my musical upbringing: fully-inked acoustic music. Untethered from the backbeats and lead sheets of my career in jazz and pop music, I once again immersed myself in scores and music literature. An exciting new sense of freedom filled me with inspiration. I discovered a wellspring of patience and subsequent understanding and became obsessed with form. Hyper-focussed and pencil in hand, I wrote tirelessly from dawn until dusk. When I spoke about this newfound passion with one of the biggest supporters of my lifetime, my Dad, he told me it sounded like I had “seen the light” – a remarkable turn of events during an otherwise difficult time for us all. (Bryan Doherty)
Carrie Shaw, soprano
Jennifer Clippert, flute
Erica Anderson, oboe
Barbara Drapcho, Bb clarinet
Jeremiah Frederick, F horn
Collin Anderson, bassoon
MingHuan Xu, violin
Theo Espy, violin
Doyle Armbrust, viola
Nick Photinos, violincello
Christian Dillingham, double bass
Ben Bolter, conductor (Three Poe Excerpts & The Thousand Injuries)
Carrie Shaw
Praised in the New York Times “as graceful vocally as she was in her movements”, “consistently stylish” (Boston Globe), and as a “cool, precise soprano” (Chicago Tribune), Carrie Henneman Shaw is a two-time McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians winner (2010, 2017). She has premiered major works by such Minnesota composers as Jocelyn Hagen and Abbie Betinis, whose annual Christmas carols she records for Minnesota Public Radio, and sung American premieres by such composers as Georg Friedrich Haas, Hans Thomalla, and Augusta Read Thomas. In addition to her work as an interpreter of contemporary works, Carrie specializes in music of the 17th century and has performed operatic roles with one of America’s leading Baroque opera companies, Boston Early Music Festival. Carrie is a member of Chicago’s Ensemble Dal Niente, Quince Ensemble, and uluuul. She holds degrees in English and voice performance from Lawrence University and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota. She teaches at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Bryan Doherty
is a Chicago-based composer, songwriter, bassist, and producer who contributes his efforts to a multitude of varied projects.
His music has been featured in an array of spheres from American Songwriter to the popular video game Watch Dogs. Doherty has composed three operas, a ballet, a string quartet, various vocal and symphonic music, and a piano suite. His Chamber Symphony in D Minor received its world premiere in Chicago in 2024. In 2025 he was commissioned to write a solo cantata for the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, setting text by Marianne Moore.
As a bassist, Bryan has performed all over the world while also being an in-demand studio musician appearing on albums by Marquis Hill, Stu Mindeman, and Matt Gold, to name a few. He is also the founder of Hood Smoke which the Chicago Sun-Times called a "must-see act!”, a group that released numerous albums of Doherty’s original music and toured America.
Doherty attended Milwaukee High School of the Arts and Chicago College of Performing Arts.
Booklet for The Orphans & Poe