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COMMISSIONS & PREMIERES

1988-1989
après Wagner, après Poe (1987) by Frank McCarty – Mallarmé’s 1st commission and world premiere
Sonate for cello and harp by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – NC premiere
Ambient Air by Louise Talma – NC premiere
Modes of Discourse (1988) by Roger Hannay – commission and world premiere

1989-1990
Suite for flute, oboe and cello (1987), by Donald Waxman – NC premiere

1990-1991
Duo Concertante for violin and French horn by Harold Schiffman – commission consortium
and world premiere

1991-1992
Serenade for Mallarmé (1991) by Robert Ward – commission and world premiere
Beyond Words by Penka Kouneva – commission and world premiere
Mirror, Mirror (1991) by Elinor Florence Armer – world premiere

1992-1993
Scherzos and Songs by Max Raimi – commission and world premiere

1993-1994
Dream Steps, a dance Suite for Flute, Viola and Harp by Dan Locklair – commission and world premiere
Concerto for Trumpet and five Players by Ellen Zwillich – NC premiere
Flute Quartet by Nicholas Maw – NC premiere

1994-1995
Advice to the Players by Allen Krantz, text by William Carlos William – world premiere

1995-1996
Seven Cabaret Songs by T. J. Anderson – commission and world premiere
The Quality of Light (1996) by Bo Newsome – commission and world premiere

1996-1997
Offering by Stephen Jaffe – commission and world premiere
Crossing Rivers II (1996) by Jennifer E. Stasack – commission and world premiere

1997-1998
Horntrio (1997) by Yehudi Wyner – commission consortium and world premiere
It Won’t Be The Same River by Penka Kouneva – commission and world premiere

1999-2000
American Triptych by J. Mark Scearce – world premiere
Diez huaynocitos para violoncello y piano by Gabriela Frank – commission and world premiere

2000-2001
Above the Thomas Gate by Nathaniel Stookey – consortium commission and world premiere

2001-2002
Carolina Reveille by Paul Schoenfield – NC premiere
Unconscious Spiral (2002) by Bo Newsome – premiere
Soul Gone Home by William Banfield – commission and world premiere

2002-2003
Thoa Noi Nho Mong by Hoang Cuong – commission and world premiere

2003-2004
On the ineffable nature of the divine being (2003) by Sidney Marquez Boquiren – commission and world premiere Spirit Songs (1993) by Thomas Jefferson Anderson – world premiere

2004-2005
Language Instructions (2003) by Derek Bermel – consortium commission and world premiere

2005-2006
Haydn Tuyero-Chicharras-Galeones (2000) by Paul Desenne – US premiere
Grist for the Mill (2005) by Anthony Kelley – commission and world premiere

2006-2007
Four Pieces quasi Sonata by Stephen Jaffe – world premiere
Three Bagatelles by Paul Schoenfield – commission & premiere
Life Goes by Trevor Weston – world premiere
Chaconnesque (2003) by Craig Walsh – world premiere

2007-2008
String Quartet by Ma Sicong – US premiere

2008-09
Music for Three (2008) by Scott Lindroth– world premiere

(guitar, flute, viola)

2009-10
Sense of Place (2010) by Bo Newsome - commission and world premiere

(clarinet and string trio)

2010-11
Rapsodia Andina (2011) by Gabriela Lena Frank - commission and world premiere

(harp, flute, viola, cello)

2011-12

the machine without horses (2011) by David Kirkland Garner - commission and world premiere WINNER OF THE 1ST ANNUAL EDGING THE CUT COMPOSITION CONTEST

(guitar, bass, keyboard, saxophone, percussion)

Language of the Soul (2009) by Gwyneth Walker - world premiere

(trumpet, string quartet, bass)