CHRISTOPHER BRUBECK'S Violin Concerto with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra. This concerto was born in jam sessions with the composer and violin soloist, Nicolas Kendall.
GERALD BUSBY'S piano concert on October 20 at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Manhasset, NY.
DAVID CHESKY'S Concerto for Flamenco Guitar with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra.
FRANCIS MARIO D'AMICO'S Beijing Blues by The Ocean City Pops Orchestra with soloist Mark O'Kain on August 12 at the Ocean City Music Pier in Ocean City, New Jersey. Also, D'Amico's Fanfare and Elegy for Orchestra, a commemorative work of the 9/11 tragedy, is available on the CD Americana at oceancitypops.org.
SARA DONCASTER'S Rush Patrick's Vision by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.
TAN DUN'S milestone compositions including a world premiere concerto for zheng and orchestra, a new production of opera Tea: A Mirror of Soul, as well as several orchestral and chamber music works in a week long celebration of his works at the Stockholm International Composers Festival in Stockholm, Sweden in November. The New York premiere of Tan Dun's The Gate, a part of his Orchestral Theatre series, at Brooklyn Academy of Music on December 5, 7 and 8.
GERALD FRIED'S The Chess Game, inspired by Alice in Wonderland and commissioned by the New York Chamber Soloists, at Bargemusic in New York City on April 8, and at the Vermont Mozart Festival on July 22.
JEFFERSON FRIEDMAN'S Sacred Heart: Explosion, a winning entry in the Julliard Competition, in October by the National Symphony Orchestra.
STEPHEN MICHAEL GRYC'S trombone concerto entitled, Passaggi, by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra on March 15 and 17 at Belding Theater at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut. Soloist Joseph Alessi commissioned the work.
STEVE HEITZEG'S Together (Divided we are nothing. . .), based on speeches by Robert F. Kennedy, by the Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska, conductor, and the MN All-State Choir on February 16.
QUINCY HILLIARD'S Fanfare for the Alexandria Bicentennial with the Rapides Symphony Orchestra.
SUSIE IBARRA'S Pintados Dream (The Painted's Dream) by the American Composers Orchestra.
SCOTT JOHNSON'S Stalking Horse by the American Composers Orchestra.
MARK KILSTOFTE'S 0 to 60, commissioned in celebration of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra's 60 th Anniversary, on September 29 and 30 at the Peace Center for the Performing Arts under the direction of Edvard Tchivzhel.
DAN LOCKLAIR'S Phoenix for Orchestra received its world premiere on September 15, 16, and 18 by the Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra at The Stevens Center in Winston-Salem, NC.
ROBINSON MCCLELLAN'S world premiere of Flight of the Earls: Concerto for Uilleann Pipes with Ivan Goff on Uilleann Pipes by the Albany Symphony Orchestra September 27, 28, and 29.
PAUL MORAVEC, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer in 2004 for his chamber work The Tempest Fantasy, will premiere his operatic version of Somerset Maugham's 1924 short story, The Letter, commissioned by the Opera, and funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
BEHZAD RANJBARAN'S U.S. premiere of Awakening, by the New World Symphony, a commissioned work originally premiered by International Sejong Soloists in Korea's Demilitarized Zone in 2005 as a celebration of peace.
MARY ALICE RICH'S Letters From the Fallen by Dallas 'Voice of Change' artistic director Joe Illick and cellist Kari Nostbakken, to honor soldiers lost in the Iraq war at the Caruth Auditorium at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX on September 16.
ARTURO RODRIGUEZ'S Fantasia Concertante for piano and orchestra with maestro Stanley DeRusha and the Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra after themes from the picture soundtrack, Cuando las Cosas Suceden on September 9 at the Indiana History Center Basile Theater.
BENNETT SIEMS' All Nora's Daughters Can Fly, a program of new and encore concert works, at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis, MN October 18-20 celebrating the release of his latest CD, Empire at Twilight.
STANISLAW SKROWACZEWSKI'S Fantasie for Flute and Orchestra "Il piffero della notte" with the Minnesota Orchestra.
WILLIAM SUSMAN'S Duo Montuno for clarinet and piano at The Knitting Factory in New York City on June 28. The work was performed by the Sapphire Ensemble with Demetrius Spaneas playing clarinet and Elaine Kwon on piano. Susman's score for Native New Yorker, the best documentary short winner at the Tribeca Film Festival 2006 was shown at the Expresion en Corto Film Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico July 28 and on Channel Thirteen/WNET's Reel New York July 19 and 22.
KEN THOMSON'S world premiere of Wait Your Turn with the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City on October 19.
ZHOU TIAN'S new work with the Minnesota Orchestra on October 23 and 24.
MATTHEW TOMMASINI'S Three Spanish Songs, winner of the Frederick Fennell Prize, in Killarney, Ireland at an international conference in July by the University of Louisville Wind Symphony. Tommasini has been named Composer-In-Residence of the Chicago-based chamber series, "Music in the Loft" for the 2008-9 season.
STEPHEN WILCOX'S Cho-Han with the Minnesota Orchestra.
STEVEN WINTEREGG'S Resolution by the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra at the Schuster Center in Dayton, Ohio on October 11 and 13. The commissioned orchestral work reflected the composer's wife's battle with breast cancer.
WANG XI'S Above Light-A Conversation with Toru Takemitsu by the Minnesota Orchestra.
JUDITH LANG ZAIMONT'S The Figure, a new quartet in two contrasting movements titled "In Shadow" and "In Bright Light" at Syracuse University on September 15 with the Harlem String Quartet.
