Premiered

SAMUEL H. ADLER’S A Bridge to Understanding by the Empire State Youth Orchestra.

LEONARDO BALADA’S Hangman, Hangman! and The Town of Greed at Teatro Zarzuela, Madrid and Teatro Liceu, Barcelona September 21 through November 18, 2007. Triple Cello Concerto by Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra at PhilharmonieBerlin on October 28, 2007. A Little Night Music in Harlem by the Hungarian Chamber Symphony Orchestra in Budapest September 21, 2007. Caprichos No. 4 – Quasi Jazz by the Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra, March 27, 2008 at Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh.

LISA BIELAWA’S Double Violin Concerto by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.

SVJETLANA BUKVICH-NICHOLS’ Before and After the Tekke’ for electronics, violin, and voice by herself and Ana Milosavljevic on violin.

DAVID BURGER’S Darchei Noam (Paths of Pleasantness) by Zamir Chorale at Carnegie Hall on March 30, 2008. It was commissioned by the Zamir Choral Foundation to honor Israel’s 60 th year of statehood.

PATRICK J. BURNS’ Eureka! at Carnegie Hall on March 24, 2008. The Westlake High School Wind Ensemble commissioned the piece.

DANIEL BURWASSER’S “One Night Together” with libretto by Ilsa Gilbert by the Downtown Chamber and Opera Players in February at the Duo Multicultural Arts Center in New York.

RICHARD CAMPANELLI'S A Dark & Fatal Beauty for piano duo in Busan, South Korea on April 27-28, 2008.

EDMUND CIONEK’S Symphony No. 1 by the Western Piedmont Symphony.

JOHN CORIGLIANO’S Percussion Concerto by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

CHARLES FITTS’ Circus Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra by Houston Chamber Orchestra on February 25, 2008 at Zilkha Hall in Houston, Texas.

ALDO RAFAEL FORTE’S Diverse Dances for Wind Band by the Empire State Wind Orchestra.

JAMES C. FUNKHOUSER’S Centennial Fanfare by the Saint Joseph Symphony.

CAROLYN GARDNER (lyricist), BRET SIMMONS (composer) and JASON MILLIGAN'S (book) new country western musical, Lucky Star, at Arizona’s Phoenix Theatre from May 14 to June 8, 2008 with a 5-piece band and 8-member cast.

LYNN DEAN GLASSOCK’S Twisted Proverbs by the Empire State Youth Percussion Ensemble.

NOËL GOEMANNE’S “Veni Sancte Spiritus” for unaccompanied mixed voices on December 22, 2007 in Hasselt-Limburg, Belgium. The work was performed by the Hasselt Cathedral Choir of St. Quintinus Cathedral.

DARON HAGEN’S Masquerade by the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra.

DAVID HAHN’S Concerto Anatolia for Guitar and Orchestra by the Round Top Festival Orchestra on February 16, 2008. Also, Big Donut was premiered at 60x60’s Pacific Rim Mix concert on April 18, 2008 at Mills College, Oakland, CA.

JOEL HOFFMAN’S Concerto for Cello and Oud (“The Forty Steps”) by the Madison Symphony Orchestra.

STEVE HOROWITZ’S Mix/Re-Mix by the Astoria Symphony. Also, the theme song for a new film, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden ("Freedoms Call"), can be found on iTunes, performed by Folkfoot.

SAMUEL JONES’ Horn Concerto by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

DAVID KECHLEY’S COLLIDING OBJECTS: Interactions for Piano and Percussion by Doris Stevenson and Matthew Gold

DANIEL KELLOGG’S The Fiery Furnace by the San Diego Symphony, Maestro Jahja Ling, and the San Diego Master Chorale.

ELIZABETH ANNE KELLY’S Stop, Drop, and Listen by the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra.

JOHN M. KENNEDY’S Desde el Balcon for Viola and Baritone on texts of Lorca by Music of France and the US: Musical Alliances Musicale with Hong Mei Xao, viola and Nicholas Isherwood, baritone at Luckman Theater, CA in November, 2007.

JOAN LA BARBARA’S “ATMOS” for flute and sonic atmosphere, commissioned for Margaret Lancaster through Meet The Composer’s New Works for Soloist Champions Project with support from the New York State Music Fund on March 19 th at Symphony Space in New York, NY.

LIBBY LARSEN’S Evening in the Palace of Reason by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

STEPHEN LIAS’ Ebullience by the Stephen F. Austin State University Wind Ensemble in Nacogdoches, TX on March 28, 2008.

DAN LOCKLAIR’S Arias and Dances for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord bythe Alienor Ensemble on March 7, 2008 at the 2008 Southeastern Historic Keyboard Society/Alienor Conference.

SOPHE LUX’S video for their song “Target Market” at MIDEM in Cannes, France.

EDWARD NIEDERMAIER’S Voyageurs by the Minnesota Youth Symphonies.

NARONG PRANGCHAROEN’S Tri Sattawat by the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra.

HUANG RUO’S Concerto for Sheng by the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

ALEJANDRO RUTTY’S The Conscious Sleepwalker Loops by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.

ERIC SAWYER'S Our American Cousin, an opera on war, morality and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, at the Academy of Music in Northampton, MA in June 20 and 22, 2008.

BARRY SCHRADER’S new electronic music epic, Monkey King, in CalArts’ Roy O. Disney Hall on January 19, 2008. “Monkey King” is based on scenes from the classic Chinese book Journey to the West.

JAMES MARTIN SELF’S Tour de Force by the Pacific Symphony.

VINEET SHENDE’S Three Longfellow Poems by the Portland Symphony Orchestra.

RICHARD ST. CLAIR'S full-length buddist cantata Flower of the Dharma with its Boston premiere by the 120-voice University Chorus of Umass/Boston on May 9, 2008.

AVRAHAM STERNKLAR’S Two Etudes (2007) by Rorianne Schrade, award winning concert pianist, on February 10, 2008 at the Park Ave. United Methodist Church in NYC.

WILLIAM SUSMAN’S score to “Native New Yorker” by the group, Accessible Contemporary Music on March 26, 2008. The piece was performed in a concert of Life Music to Modern Silent Films, and was previously the Tribeca Film Festival award winner. His wind quintet, Six Minutes Thirty Seconds, was performed by Quintet Tabor in February and March.

KEN UENO’S On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.

NICHOLAS URIE’S Excerpts From an Online Dating Service by the Large Ensemble at Lily Pad. The libretto is made up of online dating advertisements.

JUDITH LANG ZAIMONT’S The Spirit Moves Me by The New York Virtuoso Singers and the Universal Sacred Music Ensemble in NYC in April, 2008.

LEV "LJOVA" ZHURBIN'S score of Cupcake at the Tribeca Film Festival.