ABBIE BETINIS by The Schubert Club in Saint Paul, MN to write a 25-minute song cycle, Nattsanger, for soprano, clarinet and piano.
NEIL and MATTHEW DE LUCA by award-winning director Jeff Knight to score the feature length film Noir.
JASON PALMER, as one of five trumpeters, for the 2007 Festival of New Trumpet music in NYC. The work is entitled Beauty N Numbers and is a two-hour suite based on a sudoku game.
ALLAN SCHINDLER , Eastman School of Music Professor of Composition, by Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University with a $10,000 commission. Schindler will write a work for marimba and computers, tentatively titled Take Flight, a celebration of 100 years of aeronautical navigation. Other ASCAP Fromm Music Foundation 2007 Commissions were STEVE ANTOSCA, TAMAR DIESENDRUCK, PAUL LANSKY, LEI LIANG, PHILIPPE MANOURY (SACEM), TAMAR MUSKAL, SUZANNE SORKIN and DU YUN.
PAUL SEITZ by the Henderson Symphony Orchestra to compose a new work, In Beauty, based on design elements in Navajo textiles.
BENNETT SIEMS by Off-Leash Area Contemporary Performance Works to compose the soundscore for a new dance/theater fusion work, Border Crossing, to be premiered in Minneapolis in 2008.
