Premiered

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN (BUMA) had his work The City of Dis premiered by the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

LOUIS BALLARD'S Indiana Concerto for piano and orchestra by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in January 2008. Ballard passed away in 2007 and his protégé BRENT MICHAEL DAVIS completed the work.

PHILIPPE BODIN'S Elastique by Amerstdam's Orkest de Volharding in late 2007. The work is a commission from Volharding with funds from American Music Center.

BRIAN PATRICK BROMBERG'SChamber Symphony No. 1 by the Illinois State University Chamber Orchestra on November 1, 2007.

EDMUND CIONEK'S The Adirondacks by the Western Piedmont Symphony on February 9, 2008 at the J.E. Broyhill Civic Center in North Carolina.

AVNER DORMAN'S exciting new percussion concerto in early December, 2007 by the Hamburg Philharmonic.

HENRI DUTILLEUX (SACEM) had his work Le Temps L'Horloge premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

ELLEN FISHMAN-JOHNSON'SWomen Who Came Before Us by the Pennsylvania Girlchoir and Network for New Music on November 18, 2007 at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill.

STACY GARROP'S new orchestra work, Becoming Medusa, in its world premiere by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The work was commissioned as a result of the DSO's 2006/2007 Elaine Lebenbom Prize.

HOWARD HERSH'S Let Evening Come by the San Francisco choral group Volti on November 3-4, 2007. A week earlier, the San Francisco Chamber Music Society premiered Flex for woodwind quintet.

MAURY LAWS' Twas the Night Before Christmas by Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra.

RICARDO LORENZ'SRumba Sinfonica by the Minnesota Orchestra.

ANN MILLIKAN'SThe Woodcarver & The Blacksmith by the California EAR Unit at Redcat in Los Angeles on October 17, 2007.

JOHN MUSTO'SLater the Same Evening, conducted by GLENN CORTESE, was premiered from November 15-18, 2007 at the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

MICHAEL TENZER'S Resolution/Tabuh Gari by the American Composers Orchestra, a U.S. premiere.

JOSEPH TURRIN and GLORIA NISSENSON'SThe Fir Tree by the Canadian Brass and the NY Philharmonic Principal Brass at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on December 9, 2007. Nissenson's compositions in the musical version of The Velveteen Rabbit were nominated for a Grammy for Best Musical Album for Children.

CAROLYN YARNELL'S Yosemite and the Range of Light by the Albany Symphony Orchestra.