Shaun Naidoo Composer

"...Naidoo's music is a hoot and a delight. He is one of the few composers with genuine wit and originality, and also one of the few in any genre these days that know how to start and when to stop."

- Alan Rich

Los Angeles Weekly

UPCOMING

NEW WORK: For California E.A.R. Unit - To be premiered in 2011.

NEW WORK: For Bill Barrett - solo chromatic harmonica.

NEW WORK: For FearNoMusic (Portland, Oregon) - To be premiered in Fall 2010.

AUGUST 2010: Australian premiere and live broadcast performance of Diamond Morning for two pianos. Anna Grinberg and Liam Viney, pianos.

JULY 2010: East Coast premiere of Surgical Strike - Bang-on-a-Can Summer Festival, MASS MOCA. Vicki Ray - piano, Todd Reynolds - violin, Nicholas Photinos - cello.

MAY 27TH 2010: Bad Times Coming: Piano/Percussion version: Vicki Ray (piano) and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet - Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC.

NEW AND RECENT

NIGERIAN SPAM: For live percussion, prerecorded percussion, and computer voices. Written for Nicholas Terry, completed April 2010.

DIAMOND MORNING: For two pianos: Premiered by Anna Grinberg and Liam Viney - February 5, 2010 - REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles. Australian preview performance - March 18 - University of Queensland, Brisbane.

BAD TIMES COMING: Piano/Electronics version: Vicki Ray (piano) - Part of the LA Phil's West Coast:Left Coast Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall, November 29, 2009. more...

BAD TIMES COMING: Piano/Percussion version: Vicki Ray (piano) and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet - September 12, 2009.

EPITAPH: New work for ecco (Freiburg, Germany - saxophone, accordion, cello, MaxMsp) - completed early 2009. more...

ELEPHANT DAYS: Premiered at Los Angeles Zoo, Chamber Music in Historic Sites®, California E.A.R. Unit - May 2009.

SENTIENT WEATHER: Percussion quintet premiered by the New World Symphony Percussion Consort (Miami Beach, Florida) - February 2009 - completed early 2008. more...

CREDO: For piano and synthesizer. Premiered by Vicki Ray December 2008 - Redcat Theater, Los Angeles. more...

WAKING IN THE DIRT: Arranged for Christoph Kirschke (Freiburg, Germany) -tenor saxophone, electonics, MaxMsp - late 2008. more...

FIAT LUX: CD released 2007 by Capstone Records. more...