
NYSMTA COMMISSIONED COMPOSERS
State Chair: Christine Johannsen
Since 1973, the New York State Music Teachers Association, in conjunction with the Music Teachers National Association, has commissioned a New York State composer to write a work for premiere at the state conference. The commission is funded equally by NYSMTA and MTNA as part of a national commissioning project.
1973 Jean Eichelberger Ivey – Skaniadaryo (Handsome Lake) for piano and tape
1974 William Penn – Miroirs sur la Rubaiyat for piano and narrator, with dancer ad lib. (Alternate version for clarinet,
piano, and narrator)
1975 Miriam Gideon – Fantasy on Irish Folk-Motives for oboe, bassoon (or cello), viola and 1 percussion
1976 James Willey – Duo for Flute and Harp
1977 David Maslanka – Variations on Lost Love for Marimba solo
1978 Judith Lang Zaimont – Two Songs for soprano and harp (or piano)
1979 Timothy Sullivan – Luckeystone for clarinet and computer generated tape
1980 Wayne Barlow – Intermezzo for viola and harp
1981 Daria Semegen – Music for Contrabass Solo
1982 Ruth Schonthal – Fragments from a Woman’s Diary for piano
1983 Ellen Taaffee Zwilich – Divertimento for flute, viola, clarinet, and cello
1984 Donald Waxman – Trio for two flutes and piano
1985 Joseph Fennimore – Calentura de Tresia, Second Romance for piano
1986 Samuel Adler – Quintalogues for woodwinds and mallet percussion
1988 Ann Silsbee – Darest Thou Now O Soul for chamber choir and piano
1989 Katherine Hoover – Ritual for clarinet and piano
1990 Leo Smit – Under a Tender Moon for soprano, horn, viola, harp
1991 Daniel Godrey – Numina for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello
1992 Tania Leon – Arenas d’un Tiempo (Sands of Time) for piano, clarinet, cello
1993 Hilary Tann – Water’s Edge for four-hand piano
1994 Richard Brooks – Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet
1995 Robert Keefe – Three Songs on Poems of Rick Lyons, Burning Meadows, Roads and Pile Driver for soprano, flute, clarient/bass, violin, cello, piano
1996 Melinda Wagner – Wing and Prayer for clarinet, cello, piano, percussion
1997 Carleton Clay – Reflections and Variations on a Bicentennial (Schubert) for flute, cello, guitar (also flute, viola, harp or flute, clarinet, bassoon)
1998 Justin Dello Joio – A Book of Silhouettes: Etudes for piano
1999 Zhuang Liu – Wind Through Pines for flute, cello and prepared piano
2000 Randall Woolf – Wild Variations for flute, clarinet, violin & cello
2002 Stefania de Kenessey – After the City Wept for children’s choir, piano & percussion
2003 Richard Pearson Thomas – A Wicked Girl for soprano, cello, and piano
2004 David Liptak – Shaping the Invisible for piano quintet
2005 Amanda Harberg – Tenement Rhapsody for two pianos
2006 Sally Lamb – Love’s Philosophy for soprano, clarinet and piano
2007 David Schober – Rising Fortunes for brass quintet
2008 Marc Mellits – Tom for violin and cello
2009 Katherine Hoover – The Word in Flowers for mezzo-soprano, piano, flute and guitar
2010 Persis Parshall Verhor – Through Another Season for soprano, piano, flute and guitar
2011 Steven L. Rosenhaus – Rescuing Psyche for flute and piano
2013 Cynthia Lee Wong – Six Guptha Songs for mezzo soprano and piano
2016 Octavio Vazquez – Three Departures for alto saxophone and piano
2018 Ellen Mandel – Songs of Dark and Night. Three Songs to Poems of Glyn Maxwell for baritone and piano
2020 Philip Wharton – Underground for Violin, Clarinet and Piano
2022 Hwaen Ch’uqi – Suite in the Baroque Manner for two pianos, four hands