COMMISIONED

RICHARD CHIARAPPA by the Noah Webster House Museum of West Hartford, CT to compose Noah's National Language, a work for orchestra, chorus, narrator, and actor. The world premiere will be October 19, 2008. His piece Boom! for Symphony Orchestra and Bass Drum received its world premiere on May 17.

PHILIP A. FRIED and ITTY BITTY SYMPHONY by Zeitgeist for their 30 th anniversary concerts. He was also awarded a 2008 McKnight Composers Fellowship.

BENNET SIEMS by the Minnesota Visiting Nurses Association to compose the soundtrack for a documentary short on the association's work. The film was premiered on June 3, 2008 at the Nicollet Island Pavilion in Minneapolis.