Patrick Cassidy (composer)
Patrick Cassidy ( born 1956 in Claremorris, County Mayo ) is an Irish composer.
Biography
Patrick Cassidy in 1985 received his master's degree in mathematics from the University of Limerick. He then worked until 1989 as an analyst at Irish Marketing Surveys, before he left the company and set up his practice as a composer. He was still active as a consultant by the way, until he left in 1999 Ireland to move his family to Los Angeles.
He released his debut album in 1988 with Cruit, which was followed by Children of Lir, Famine Remembrance and Deirdre of the Sorrows, and the two co Immortal Memory and Ashes and Snow and the Australian composer Lisa Gerrard. Since 1995, he also worked occasionally as a film composer and wrote the soundtracks to films such as Stephen King Salem 's Lot, Edgar Allan Poe's The grave of Ligeia and last Bulletproof Gangster.
He created cantatas and oratorios, in which he reworked traditional Irish texts and topics. His aria " Vide Cor Meum " was used in the films Hannibal and Kingdom of Heaven.