NEW YORK STATE         MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION

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