General & Latter-day Saints Commission Recipients

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

General	Ensemble(s)	Latter-day Saint	Ensemble(s)
David Biedenbender	Haven Trio	Todd Kitchen	Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Dorothy Chang	Land’s End Ensemble & Evelyn Glennie	Lansing McLoskey	Network for New Music
Natacha Diels	Jack Quartet	Joseph Sowa	Room 1078
Stefan Freund	Splinter Reeds	Ethan Wickman	San Antonio Symphony
Wang Lu	Seattle Modern Orchestra

2020

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S)	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S)
Zosha Di Castri	Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble	Daniel Bradshaw	Dwight Bigler & the Virginia Tech Singers
Reiko Füting	Unheard-of//Ensemble	Dylan Findley	Nathan Mensink & Russ Zokaites
Carolina Heredia	Duo Axis	Andrew Lloyd	Eva Polgar
Joshua Hey	Daedalus Quartet	Julian Mansilla	The Uinta Trio
Eric Nathan	Collage New Music	Haruhito Miyagi	S. Andrew Lloyd
Carl Schimmel	Daedalus Quartet	Robert Stroebel	Playground Ensemble
Peter Shin	Friction Quartet	Nathan Thatcher	Attacca Quartet
Annika Socolofsky	Bergamot Quartet

2019

GENERAL COMMISSIONS RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S)	LDS COMMISSIONS RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S)
Katherine Balch	Exceptet	Andrew Maxfield	Salt Lake Symphony
Rohan Ravi Chander	Chromic	Alyssa Morris	Richmond Symphony Orchestra and Andres Diaz
Takumah Itoh	Albany Symphony	Steven Ricks	SPLICE Ensemble
Tonia Ko	The Parhelion Trio	Kyle Shaw	Daniel Edwards
David Reminick	Wendy Richman	Jonny Stallings	Ned McGowan and Bart De Vrees
Erin Rogers	Kamraton	Joseph Sowa	Hub New Music
George Tsontakis	F-PLUS	Benjamin Taylor	Symphonic Youth Orchestra of Greater Indianapolis
		Craig Woodward	Adam Woodward

2018

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S)	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S)
Andy Akiho	Sandbox Percussion	Lisa Despain	Scott Holden
Viet Cuong	Poulenc Trio	Jamie Erekson	Agnon Quartet
Brian Current	Tapestry New Opera	David Jones	Prismatic Wnds: BYU Idaho Faculty Wind Quintet
Charles Halka	Onix Ensamble	Austin Lopez	Max Olivier
Chihchun Chi-sun Lee	Little Chinese Chamber Orchestra & Neo Quartet	Lansing McLoskey	Guerilla Opera
Sky Macklay	andPlay
Charles Peck	Hajnal Pivnick
Christopher Stark	Shawn Weil

2017

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S)	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S)
Michael Fiday	Mantra Percussion	Andrew Maxfield	Voces Novae
Saad Haddad	Princeton Symphony Orchestra	Daniel McDavitt	BYU Women’s Chorus
Aaron Helgeson	The Crossing	Marden Pond	US Air Force Heritage of America Brass
Robert Honstein	Albany Symphony	Jesse Quebbeman-Turley	Similar Fashion and Friends
Takuma Itoh	Duo Yumeno	Steven Ricks	Dan Lippel and counter)induction
Juri Seo	Latitude 49	Benjamin Sabey	Mivos Quartet
Gabriella Smith	YMusic	Robert Strobel	Missouri Quintet
Evan Ware	Latitude 49	Nathan Thatcher	Emblems Quintet
		Stuart Wheeler	BYU Gamelan Bintang Wahyu

2016

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Claude Baker	Momenta Quartet Annees de pelerinage: Italie	Chad Cannon	Mate Bekavac (clarinet) and chamber orchestra
Stacy Garrop	Michael Hall (viola) with Bandung Philharmonic and Baroque on Beaver Festival Orchestra	Francisco Estevez	Horacio Lavandera (piano) and Mad4Strings Aut-Aut
Georg Friedrich Haas	Third Coast Percussion	Dylan Findley	Pulse Trio Swallowed Up
Ted Hearne	Ensemble Dal Niente	Todd Kitchen	Brevitas Choir
Elainie Lillios	Bent Frequency	Joseph Sowa	Geraldine Johnson (English horn)
Tina Tallon	Kurt Rohde (viola) excision no. 2	Kyle Shaw	Keven Lewis (trumpet) and organ Esurivi Enim

2015

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Diana Soh	Amigo Saxophone Quartet and then there were four	Benjamin Taylor	Calidore String Quartet and the Bellingham Festival of Music Symphony Orchestra Shooting Stars
Amos Elkana	Meitar Ensemble Tripp	Neil Thornock	Merbecke Choir Mercy and Truth
Ian Dicke	Pause Latest and Greatest	Todd Coleman	Elon University Chorale, Camerata, and Phoenix Winds In Kensington Gardens
Eric Wubbels	Splinter Reeds Auditory Scene Analysis II	Lance Montgomery	Neil Thornock (carillon) Aberfoyle
Dan VanHassel	UC-Santa Cruz Wind Ensemble Balungan	Lansing McLoskey	The Crossing Zealot Canticles
Sam Pluta	Anne La Berge (flute) Delay/Line	Keith Bradshaw	The Orchestra of Southern Utah American Suite

2014

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Dan Trueman	SO Percussion and Jack Quartet Songs That Are Hard To Sing	Chad Cannon	Farallon Quintet Citizen 13660–Vignettes
Mikel Kuehn	Spektral Quartet String Quartet No. 1:“If on a Winter’s Night…”	Steven Ricks	Manhattan String Quartet The Pure Forces’ Gravity
Peter Van Zandt Lane	EQ Ensemble Chamber Symphony	Matthew Nielsen	BYU Singers Stars Over Snow
Christopher Fisher-Lochhead	Spektral Quartet Hack	Curtis Smith	Bryan Lew, Violist Linear Memories
Ted Hearne	Roomful of Teeth Coloring Book
Mark Engebretson	Bent Frequency Oceans of Brightly Colored Broken Glass

2013

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Yi Chen	Virginia Symphony	Daniel Bradshaw	Montana State University Symphony At Full Strength
Huck Hodge	Divertimento Ensemble Apophenia	Lansing Mcloskey	Ensemberlino Vocale […]Qumran Psa[lms…]
Kurt Rohde	Michelle Kesler (cello) Pick Pocket Concerto	Benjamin Taylor	Keith Kirchoff (piano) All that Remains
Diana Soh	Duo Hevans He Said She Said
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon	Yarn/Wire Rocio del Canto
Schuyler Tsuda	ECCE Forced Vibrations and Resonance

Special Commission Recipient

CHINESE COMMISSION	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Yang Zheng	Beijing Modern Music Festival and BYU Group for New Music The Fleeting Sacred River

CHINESE COMMISSION

ENSEMBLE(S)

PIECE

Yang Zheng

Beijing Modern Music Festival and BYU Group for New Music
The Fleeting Sacred River

2012

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Jeff Herriott	Due East The Stone Tapestry	Dwight Bigler	Festival Choir of Madison Perspectives:1. Fulfillment2. Mother to Son3. I Dream a World
Emily Koh	Lunar Ensemble eeom	Christian Gentry	The Guidonian Hand Die Lärmtrompeten des Nichts
Zibuokle Martinaityte	The Harvard Trio Gridlock	Steven Ricks	Duo Links Grenzen Der Kontrolle
Alex Mincek	Line Upon Line percussion Out of Thin Air	Benjamin Sabey	Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart Voyage: a Madrigal
Andrew Norman	Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Music in Circles III
Daniel Wohl	Iktus percussion Replicate

2011

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Ted Hearne	A Far Cry Law of Mosaics	Christian Asplund	BYU Chamber Orchestra How to Be Spring
Tarik O’Regan	Utah Chamber Artists After Rain (Petrichor)	Douglas Pew	Mark Tollefsen A La Orilla Azul Del Silencio
Jack Perla	TwoSense Persistence of the Blues	Benjamin Taylor	Omaha Symphony Forever Composed of Nows (Shooting Stars)
Michael Quell	Strung Out Trio, Ensemble Aventure A Blurring Cloud-Geschöpfe der Fahrt	Neil Thornock	Will Kimball, The BYU Philharmonic am strigat…am legat
Mathew Rosenblum	Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble Falling
Evis Sammoutis	New York Woodwind Quintet Breath
Peter Van Zandt Lane	The Quux Collective Impulse Control

2010

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Michael Gandolfi	Melrose Symphony Orchestra Double Concerto for Clarinet and Bassoon	Jesse Jones	Cornell University Winds Through the Veil
Eric Chasalow	Talea Ensemble Incident and Scatter	Joseph Sowa	Eric Hansen (bass), Scott Holden(piano), Dave Kjar (saxophone), and Ron Brough (percussion) A Field Guide to Natural History
Augusta Read Thomas	New Haven Symphony Radiant Circles	Lansing McLoskey	Triton Brass and The Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble What We Do is Secret
Gregg Wramage	Brett Deubner (viola) The Sea-Longing	Seth Stewart	Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble Three Muses
David Sanford	Lara Downes (piano) Long Time Coming

2009

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Yu-Hui Chang	Triple Helix Piano Trio It is an Illusion You Ever Were Free	Stephen Anderson	Steven Harlos (piano) and the University of North Carolina Symphony Dysfunctional
Brian Current	Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Whirling Dervish	Joshua Harris	Appalachian State UniversityWind Ensemble The Wanderer
Sebastian Currier	Paul Dresher Ensemble Artificial Memory	Benjamin Sabey	La Jolla Symphony In Paradisum
Pierre Jalbert	Emerson String Quartet String Quartet No. 5
Missy Mazzoli	Chamber Players of the League of Composers Violent, Violent Sea

2008

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Daniel Asia	Czech Nonet Nonet	Christian Asplund	BYU Gamelan Bintang Wahyu Time and Eternity
Claude Baker	Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra From Noon to Starry Night	Daniel Bradshaw	Ignace Jang (violin) Movements for Violin and Piano
Michael Gandolfi	Boston Musica Viva History of the World in Seven Acts	Christian Gentry	Benjamin Sung (violin) and Jihye Chang (piano) Flux Flummoxed
Steven Mackey	Rinde Eckert (librettist) and eighth blackbird Slide	Neil Thornock	Kenneth Long (clarinet) Corrugated Refrains
Seung-Ah Oh	Flexible Music Fragments
Christopher Rouse	Calder Quartet String Quartet No. 3
Alvin Singleton	Orchestra of the League of Composers After Choice
Scott Wheeler	Joshua Gordon (cello) Spirit Geometry

2007

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Ross Bauer	New York New Music Ensemble Implicit Memory	Matthew Barnson	Sospiro Winds Wind Quintet
Robert Beaser	Boston Youth Symphony Evening Prayer	Peter McMurray	Willow Flute Ensemble Divje Babe (Wild Hags)
Peter Gilbert	Michael Norsworthy (clarinet) Hear as the Night Hollows	Bruce Polay	Lynn University ConservatoryString Quartet String Quartet No. 1
Eric Moe	Robert Schulz (percussion) Boston Modern Orchestra Project Kick and Ride	Ronald Bruce Smith	Del Sol String Quartet String Quartet No. 3
Lawrence Moss	Left Bank Concert Society New Paths	Ethan Wickman	Avalon String Quartet Namaste
David Sanford	Duo d’amore Salvum
Christopher Tignor	Christopher Tignor (computer) and Brooklyn Rider Together into this Unknowable Night

2006

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Justin Dello Joio	Carter Brey (cello) Due Per Due	Todd Coleman	April Clayton (flute) and the BYU Chamber Orchestra Flute Concerto
Gabriela Frank	Lucy Shelton (soprano) and the Adorno Ensemble Odes to Neruda	Steven Ricks	Fear No Music Anthology
Dai Fujikura	International Contemporary Ensemble ICE	Leilei Tian	Antonio Politano (recorder) and Haesung Choe (violin) In Our Image, In Our Likeness
Daniel Kellogg	Yoshiyuki Ishikawa University of Colorado Faculty Quartet Bassoon Quintetfor String Quartet & Bassoon
Gregory Mertl	Solungga Liu (piano) and the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble Piano Concerto for Piano and Symphonic Winds
Larry Polansky	Sarah Cahill (piano) and Joseph Kubera (piano) Three Pieces for Two Pianos
Aleksandra Vrebalov	Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra Stations

Special Commission Recipients

SPECIAL COMMISSION	COMPOSER	ENSEMBLE *PIECE*
International Double Reed Society 2008 Conference	Malcolm Forsyth	Bassoon, oboe, and piano Lyric Essay
2008 College Orchestra Directors Association	Libby Larsen	BYU Philharmonic Orchestra Bach 358
A Pilgrim’s Journey project	Dwight Bigler	BYU Auditioned Choirs and Orchestra Pilgrim’s Journey
BYU – Hinckley Building Groundbreaking	Crawford Gates	BYU Brass Choir and percussion Fanfare for the Ground Breaking Ceremony of the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center

2005

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Elizabeth Brown	Elizabeth Brown (theremin) and Stephanie Skaff (voice) Rural Electrification	Burton Beerman	Madeleine Shapiro (cello) Jolt/A Still, Small Voice
Stacy Garrop	Viacheslav Dinerchtein (viola) and Mauricio Nader (piano) Torque	Daniel Bradshaw	Alison Dalton (violin), Ariel Bybee (mezzo), and Stacey McCarrey (piano) Delights and Shadows
Jim Hiscott	Jim Hiscott (button accordion), Eric Hansen (bass), and Orpheus Winds River of Light	Harriet P. Bushman	Diana Graham (soprano) 1856: Long Walk Home
Kevin Puts	Yo-Yo Ma (cello) and Aspen Festival Orchestra VISION Concerto for Cello and Orchestra	Gregory Lawrence Duffin	Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory Student Choir Psalm 19:The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
Jay Reise	Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) and the Cassatt String Quartet Powers That Be	Jeff Manookian	Contemporary Music Consortium Capriccios for Flute Quartet
Nicolas Scherzinger	Dr. Kenneth R. Meyer (guitar) Offering of the Five Senses	Ethan Wickman	Flexible Music Atomic Variations
Dan Visconti	The Moore/Better Duo Trying Conclusions
Chen Yi	New Pacific Trio Tibetan Tunes
Mischa Zupko	Duo Diorama Shades of Grey for Violin and Piano

2004

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Philippe Bodin	Genevieve Feiwen Lee (piano) Inner Banners	Christian Asplund	Seattle Experimental Opera Sunset with Pink Pastoral
Sebastian Currier	Network for New Music Ensemble Nightmaze	Steven Ricks	John Sampen (saxophone) and the Bowling Green New Music Ensemble American Dreamscape
David Froom	Benjamin Coelho (bassoon), Kenneth Tse (saxophone), and Uriel Tsachor (piano) Arirang Variations	David Sargent	Lawrence Vincent (tenor) and Scott Holden (piano) In Burning Vision: Sonnets on Joseph Smith
Geoffrey Gordon	duo46 Fancywork for the Violin and Guitar	Neil Thornock	Nathan Wood (bass) Infusco/Accendo
Stephen Hartke	eighth blackbird Meanwhile
Harold Meltzer	Cygnus Ensemble Brion
Augusta Read Thomas	Alarm Will Sound Ensemble Final Soliloquoy of the Interior Paramour
George Tsontakis	St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Clair de Lune

2003

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
David Crumb	Third Angle Improvisations on an English Folk Tune	Stephen Anderson	West Point Military Band Concerto for Solo Percussion and Band
Mario Davidovsky	Boston Musica Viva Sefarad Four Spanish-Ladino Folkscenes	Rebecca Dawn Peterson	University Of Wyoming At Laramie Experience the Trees
Libby Larsen	Eugene Rousseau (saxophone) and the University of Iowa Orchestra Song Concerto
Kurt Rohde	Violin and Piano Seeing Things
James Worlton	Nova Ensemble The Etiquette of Ice
Charles Wuorinen	Robert Aitkin (flute) and James Avery (piano) Duo Sonata

Joseph Smith Bicentennial Commission

COMPOSER	PREMIERING ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Murray Boren	BYU Wind Symphony Tribute
Robert Cundick	BYU Singers Remembering Joseph: We Who Press to the Path
Stephen Jones	BYU Philharmonic Orchestra Green Tree
Mack Wilberg	BYU Concert Choir Till All Eternity Shall Ring

2002

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
James Ballentine	Jaren Hinckley (clarinet) March, Strathspey and Reel	Christian Asplund	Tom Baker/Dale Spiecher Duo Elementals/Ethers
John Harbison	DaCapo Chamber Players Songs America Loves to Sing	Matthew Barnson	John Graham Ensemble Nocturnes
Aaron Kernis	Dale Warland Singers The Wheel of Time, The Dance	Todd Coleman	Florent Renard-Payen Exquisite Corpse
David Liptak	Cassatt String Quartet String Quartet No. 2	Nathan Hofheins	Orchestra At Temple Square Fantasia on a French Carol
Zhou Long	Singapore Symphony Orchestra The Rhyme of Taigu	Lansing McLoskey	The Calyx Trio Glisten
		Steven Ricks	Carlton Vickers (flute) Boundless Light

2001

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Dorothy Chang	Kylix New Music Ensemble Wind/Unwind	Lisa DeSpain	Cassatt String Quartet String Quartet No. 1
Shih-Hui Chen	Boston Modern Orchestra Project Concerto for Pipa and Chamber Orchestra	César Andrés Mateus	Bryan Pezzone (piano), Mitchell Newman (violin), and Chamber Orchestra Visitations
Stacy Garrop	Klang Wicked	Mack Wilberg	Bach Choir Of Pittsburgh Two Carols
Louis Karchin	Andre Solomon-Glover (baritone) and Music Players Orpheus
James Mobberley	newEar Vox Inhumana
Peteris Vasks	Kronos Quartet not completed

2000

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Chen Yi	The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota Ning	Murray Boren	Belarussian Wind Octet Movements from the Liturgical Dance
Curtis Smith	Fontana Concert Society A Farewell…(Les adieaux)	Todd Coleman	Rochester Chamber Orchestra SivaSakthi
Stephen Jaffe	20th Century Consort Homage to the Breath	Robert Cundick	Young Artist Chamber Players Five Canyon Impressions
Peter Knell	The Stern-Schoenhals Duo Dialogues (Sonata No. 2)
Steven Stucky	Kansas City Choral Skylarks

1999

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
George Arasimowicz	Harp Solo Bursting While Colors Bloom	Daniel Gawthrop	Orchestra at Temple Square A Latter-day Overture
John Costa	NOVA String Quartet Perception	Jeff Manookian	Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra Concerto
Richard Festinger	San Francisco Contemporary Music Players Crossfire	Steven Ricks	Talujon and Dominic Donato (percussion) Dividing Time
Robert Maggio	San Sylvan (baritone) and David Breitman (piano) Forgiving our Fathers
Kurt Rohde	Emil Miland (cello) and Eric Zivian (piano) Six Character Pieces for Viola and Piano
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez	Left Coast Chamber Ensemble …Voici, le Bateau pour les Calanques

1998

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Tully J. Cathey	Utah Symphony Motherchord	Murray Boren	BYU Wind Ensemble Band Dances
Daniel Godfrey	St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Symphony in Minor	Keith Bradshaw	SUU Performing Groups & Faculty Desertscape, Fives, Rhythms and Rhymes
Osvaldo Golijov	Dawn Upshaw (soprano) Lua descolorida	Gaylen Hatton	BYU Concert Choir Apotheosis
David Kechley	Seattle Symphony Flow	Lansing McLoskey	Leticia Oaks Strong (violin) Wild Bells
James Primosch	Dawn Upshaw (soprano) Holy the Firm	Marie Barker Nelson	Master Musicians Concerto for Cello, Harp, Percussion,and Strings
Steven Stucky	Baltimore Symphony Concerto Mediterraneo
Olly Wilson	Roy Malan (violin) and San FranciscoContemporary Music Players

1997

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Lee Hyla	Boston Musica Viva Lives of the Saints	Marden Pond	Michael Ballam (tenor) and Music Enterprises Ode to a “Tougher Cuss”
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez	CORE Ensemble Luciernagos
David Vayo	Sher Jie Ensemble Awakening of the Heart
Melinda Wagner	Paul Lustig Dunkel (flute) and the Westchester Philharmonic Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion
Eric Whitacre	Ron Staheli (director) and BYU Choir When David Heard

1996

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Robert Beaser	Consortium of Orchestras not completed	Murray Boren	Consortium of Wind Ensembles Concerto for Piano and Winds
Donald Crockett	Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble Extant	Gaylen Hatton	Brigham Young Symphonic Band Conspectus Sonare
Osvaldo Golijov	CORE Ensemble Salvador
Arthur Levering	Boston Musica Viva Still Raining, Still Dreaming
David Sampson	Memphis Symphony Orchestra Monument
Joseph Schwantner	Greg Hustis (French Horn) and the Dallas Symphony Beyond Autumn

1995

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Dominick Argento	Dale Warland Singers Walden Pond	Mark Mitchell	Vancouver Chamber Choir Six Chansons Populaires de la Seizieme Siecle
John Harbison	Leslie Amper (piano), Randall Hodgkinson (piano), and St. Luke’s Orchestra not completed	Mack Wilberg	Mormon Tabernacle Choir Fantasia on Early Latter-day Saint Hymns
Jody Rockmaker	Earplay The Eyes of an Abhinaya Dancer	Oded Zehavi	BYU Chamber Orchestra and Israel Children’s Choir Rainbow
Sheila Silver	Alexander Paley (piano) and the Illinois, Richmond, Annapolis, and Westchester Symphonies Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Special Commission Recipients

SPECIAL EVENT	COMPOSER	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
International Horn Society	Toru Takemitsu	transferred to Joseph Schwantner (1996)

SPECIAL EVENT

COMPOSER

ENSEMBLE(S)

PIECE

International Horn Society

Toru Takemitsu

*transferred to Joseph Schwantner (1996)*

1994

1993

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*		LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Stephen Scott	Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Music for Bowed Pianoand Chamber Orchestra		David Carlson	Utah Opera Dreamkeepers
			Stephen Jones	SMU Wind Ensemble Strike

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS

ENSEMBLE(S)

PIECE

LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS

ENSEMBLE(S)

PIECE

Stephen Scott

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Music for Bowed Pianoand Chamber Orchestra

David Carlson

Utah Opera
Dreamkeepers

Stephen Jones

SMU Wind Ensemble
Strike

1992

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
William Bolcom	James Galway (flute) and the St. Louis Symphony Lyric Concerto	Kurt Bestor	Ballet West Utah: 5 Sacred Lessons
Chou Wen-chung	Cleveland Quartet Clouds	Don Cook	Organist Teachers not completed
Nathan Currier	Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp) Two Pieces for Harp	Glenn Palmer	University of Michigan Band Elysian Spheres
Henry Gwiazda	Electric Flute & Pitch Transposer thefLuteintheworLdthefLuteistheworLd
Jonathan Kramer	Cincinnati Percussion Notta Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Ricardo Lorenz	Zeitgeist Zamuro tumbo Mirage
Cindy McTee	Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble The Twittering Machine
James Mobberley	Kansas City Symphony Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Bernard Rands	Philadelphia Orchestra Canzoni per Orchestra
Betsy Schramm	Boston Musica Viva Sedna
Frederick Speck	Richard Stolzman (clarinet) and the Warsaw Philharmonic Concerto
Henryk Gorecki	Dawn Upshaw (soprano) and Kronos Quartet not completed

1991

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Richard Danielpour	Muir Quartet String Quartet No. 2	Robert Cundick	Drinkall-Baker Duo Sonata for Violincello and Piano
Michelle Ekizian	Westchester Orchestra Saber Dances	Daniel Gawthrop	American Boys Choir Tuffer and the Gruffs
Maurice Gardner	Dalton/Barrus Duo Five Bagatelles	Brent Pierce	Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square Jesus the Christ
Adolphus Hailstork	Baltimore Symphony Festival Music	Marden Pond	Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Gebunge
Remigijus Merkelys	Juana Muzika Choral Society Missa “L’homme Armé”	David Sargent	Eastman Brass Five Sketches for Brass Quintet
George Tsontakis	Hudson Valley Chamber Orchestra Perpetual Solitude
Andy Vores	Kathleen Supove (piano) Wetherby Nocturne
Henry Wolking	Boise Chamber Orchestra and the Idaho Ballet Forever Yesterday (El Ayer, Siempre)

1990

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Sebastian Currier	Consortium Vocalissimus	Newel Kay Brown	Carter Enyeart (cello) and the Denton Chamber Orchestra Flowers Over the Wall
Robert Maggio	Oakland East Bay Symphony Imaginary Dances	Darwin Wolford	American West Symphony & Chorus Psalms of Beauty, Psalms of Light
David Ott	Canton Symphony Concerto for Tenor Saxophoneand Orchestra
Alice Parker	Vancouver Chamber Choir & Orchestra That Sturdy Vine
Christopher Rouse	Baltimore Symphony Karolju
David Stock	St. Paul Chamber Orchestra The Center Holds
Eric Stokes	American Composer’s Orchestra The Ghost Bus to Eldorado
Augusta Read Thomas	Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players Haiku
Dan Locklair	Barbara Harbach (harpsichord) Concerto Grosso
Chinary Ung	Arizona University Band Grand Spiral

Special Commission

COMPOSER	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Joseph Schwantner	St. Louis Symphony “Evening Land” Symphony

COMPOSER

ENSEMBLE(S)

PIECE

Joseph Schwantner

St. Louis Symphony
“Evening Land” Symphony

1989

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Richard Danielpour	New York Chamber Symphony Metamorphosis	Stephen Jones	Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra The Image of the Singing Air!
Paul Moravec	Santa Cruz Symphony Spiritdance	Michael Runyan	Indianapolis Symphony The Age of the Offered Hand
Gunther Schuller	Cincinnati Symphony The Past is in the Present	David Zabriskie	Chicago Piano Quartet Mirrored Illusions
Chinary Ung	Vermeer Quartet String Quartet No. 1

Special Commissions for the 1992 Barlow Festival

COMPOSER	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Glenn Palmer	Drinkall-Baker Duo Duo for Cello and Piano
William Kraft	BYU Percussion Group with Choir Songs of Flowers, Bells and Death
Thea Musgrave	Orpheus Winds Wind Quintet

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Glenn Palmer

Drinkall-Baker Duo
Duo for Cello and Piano

William Kraft

BYU Percussion Group with Choir
Songs of Flowers, Bells and Death

Thea Musgrave

Orpheus Winds
Wind Quintet

1988

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Daron Hagen	Milwaukee Symphony Common Ground	Daniel Gawthrop	Arlington String Orchestra Three Nocturnes
Lowell Liebermann	Paula Robison (flute) and Eliot Fisk (guitar) Sonata for Flute and Guitar
Michael Schelle	Kansas City Symphony Restless Dreams before the Big Night
John I. Goodman	Muir Quartet String Quartet no. 2
Judith Shatin	Sistrum Ensemble Three Summers Heat

1987

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Joan Tower	Elmar Oliveira (violin) and the Utah Symphony Violin Concerto	David Zabriskie	Cleveland Octet Starret Lake
Ezra Laderman	American Composer Orchestra with Emanuel Ax (piano) Second Piano Concerto	Linda Williams	Norwalk Youth Symphony Variations on an American Theme
Gyorgy Ligeti	King’s Singers Nonsense Madrigals	Lynn Shurtleff	San Jose Ballet Laugh Clown

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS

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Joan Tower

Elmar Oliveira (violin) and the Utah Symphony
Violin Concerto

David Zabriskie

Cleveland Octet
Starret Lake

Ezra Laderman

American Composer Orchestra with Emanuel Ax (piano)
Second Piano Concerto

Linda Williams

Norwalk Youth Symphony
Variations on an American Theme

Gyorgy Ligeti

King’s Singers
Nonsense Madrigals

Lynn Shurtleff

San Jose Ballet
Laugh Clown

Special Commission

COMPOSER	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Crawford Gates	Ballet West Desert as a Rose

COMPOSER

ENSEMBLE(S)

PIECE

Crawford Gates

Ballet West
Desert as a Rose

1986

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Kathryn Alexander	Vivace at Tulane University The Azure That Is Darkness	Harriet P. Bushman	London Church Choir Cantata No. 1Now Behold, A Marvelous Work
Shulamit Ran	New Orleans Symphony not completed	Stephen Jones	Emory University Wind Ensemble Penumbral Tapestries
Robert Rodriguez	Knoxville and Dallas symphonies Jargon (renamed We the People)	Joseph Downing	Northwestern University Wind ensemble Concerto for Woodwind Quintet and Orchestral Winds
Debroah Drattell	Ransom Wilson (flute) and the Richmond Symphony The Fire Within

1985

GENERAL COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*	LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Samuel Adler	Atlanta Symphony Choose Life	David Zabriskie	Julie Bevan Zumsteg (cello) Sauros
Lukas Foss	Carol Wincenc (flute) and the Buffalo Philharmonic Renaissance Concerto	Murray Boren	New York Pianist at Mannes School Sonata No. 3 for Piano
Andrew Previn	Los Angeles Philharmonic Not completed	Robert Millett	Oratorio A Promised Land
Vladmir Ussachevsky	Not completed	Robert Rowberry	Cincinnati Brass Brass Quintet
John Corigliano	St. Louis Symphony Not completed	Rowan Taylor	Mark Taylor (violin) and Pierce College in Los Angeles Violin Concerto No.2
David del Tredici	New York Philharmonic Not completed

1984

LDS COMMISSION RECIPIENTS	ENSEMBLE(S) *PIECE*
Robert Cundick	Mormon Tabernacle Choir The Song of the Heart
Daniel Gawthrop	Church Choir in Washington DC Esther
Robert Manookin	Mormon Tabernacle Choir Rabboni: an Easter Cantata
Deon Nielsen Price	Los Angeles Pierce College Two Cantatas on texts from the Book of Mormon
David Sargent	John Marcellus (trombone) and Rochester Philharmonic Brass & Percussion Intarsia

GENERAL COMMISSIONS	ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER
Darcy James Argue	Alarm Will Sound
Keir GoGwilt	Bergamot Quartet (Jacqueline Kerrod)
Yeonsuk Jung	Duo Duoro
John Liberatore	Alastair Willis
James Ra	New York Classical Players
Leah Reid	Grossman Ensemble
Dale Trombore	Joel Balzun

LATTER-DAY SAINTS COMMISSION	ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER
Keith Bradshaw	Sun Orchestra and Choirs
Benjamin Taylor	Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra
Leilei Tian	Ensemble Less Utopies

GENERAL COMMISSIONS	ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER
Juhi Bansal	Nightingale Vocal Ensemble
Gala Flagello	Thalea String Quartet
Pascal Le Boeuf	[ Switch~Ensemble ]
Scott Lee	Flatirons Chamber Music Fesetival
Nikolaus Schroeder	Kali Ensemble
Derrick Skye	Sarah Rommel
Shelley Washigton	SYBARITE5

GENERAL COMMISSIONS	ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER
Matthew Arrellin	Low Frequency Trio
Nicolás Benavides	Eighth Blackbird
Amy Beth Kirsten	Bergamot Quartet
Paul Novak	Balourdet Quartet
Kian Ravaei	Abeo Quartet
Kelley Sheehan	Ensemble Kompopolex
Jerod Tate	Roomful of Teeth
Joel Thompson	The Dream Unfinished

LATTER-DAY SAINTS COMMISSIONS	ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER
Benjamin Sabey	Earplay Ensemble
David Jones	The Braeburn Brass
Steve Ricks	Ned McGowan
Ethan Wickman	Agarita Chamber Players

GENERAL COMMISSION	ENSEMBLE(S)
Theo Chandler	Kinetic
Alice Ho	NAVO Trio
Andrés Martin	Sybarite5
Eric Moe	Collage Ensemble
Shawn Okpebholo	Music from Copland House
Laurie San Martin	Hwayoung Shon and Ensemble ARI
Bora Yoon	Ensemble Decipher

General & Latter-day Saints Commission Recipients

After considering 201 applications for General and Latter-day Saints Commissions, the Endowment granted a total of $80,000 to nine composers who will write works for the indicated ensembles and musicians.

General and Latter-day Saints Commission Recipient History

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