Our Commissioning Program

As part of the ensemble's ongoing commitment to bringing new music to audiences, they established an annual commissioning/residency program. Each fall the group commissions a significant composer to create a work with them, which is then premiered during the spring semester. The group is deeply involved in all stages of the process--from selecting and commissioning the composer, to conversations and workshops with the composer as they write, to shaping the piece as drafts come in, to rehearsing with the composers, to performing the premiere performance.

Our Commissions

2004-5
Luke DuBois
Work for ensemble, video and electronic

2003-04
Michael Lowenstern
Lao Tzu #43

2002-03
David Lang
Very Long Line

2001-02
Evan Ziporyn
Monkey Forest

2000-01
Phil Kline
A Change of Hearts

1999-2000
Todd Reynolds
Of Breath and Time.

1998-99
Paul Steinberg
Suffolk Concerto

1997-98
Perry Goldstein
To the Palace Crystalline, Dancing: A Diverissement