Composers with SoSCC commissions and co-commissions
- Third Coast Percussion – Reaction Yield, hugely successful premier by Third Coast Percussion in Chicago on October 8, 2016 as part of the Ear Taxi New Music Festival! See preview workshopping video in June 2016 with Glenn and TCP. Also check out the great articles about the premiere from Chicago Tribune review and Chicago Classical Music Review!
- Jon Kulpa – negative expanse, premiered by the Friction Quartet on April 30, 2017 at the University of California, Berkeley’s Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
- Vancouver, BC-based composer Jeffery Ryan, with librettist and Giller-prize winning novelist and poet Michael Redhill, created Scar Tissue, premiered on February 1, 2019 in Ottawa, ON, Canada by the iconic Gryphon Trio with the world-reknown vocal ensemble Nordic Voices.
Composers with SoSCC-sponsored commissions
- Andrew Norman – Switch, performed by the Utah Symphony Orchestra in Salt Lake City, Utah, on November 6 and 7, 2015.
- News flash – October 18, 2016 – Andrew Norman named Musical America’s 2017 Composer of the Year! “He has likened his start-and-stop rhythms and rapid-fire exchanges to video games, YouTube playback, and other digital age phenomena. It is a voice singularly his own, and several major commissions from leading orchestras and soloists of our time have vindicated his vision.” – Alex Ross.
- Nico Muhly – Control (Five Landscapes for Orchestra), performed by the Utah Symphony Orchestra in Salt Lake City, Utah, on December 4 and 5, 2015. Hear live interviews on KSL5 with Nico Muhly, Josh Higgason, Thierry Fischer, and Glenn Prestwich.
- Augusta Read Thomas – Dance Foldings for Orchestra – commissioned by the BBC Proms 2021 for performance on August 8, 2021 by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Ryan Bancroft
Composers with SoSCC sponsored performances and collaborations
- Michael Gordon – Timber, performed by NOVA Chamber Music Series in Salt Lake City, Utah, on February 3, 2015
- Libby Larsen – Emergence, performed in complete form as part of the Crossroads series by the Fry Street Quartet in Logan, Utah, on September 22, 2015
- SoSCC was a season sponsor of living composers for each concert of the 2015-16 Subscription Series of NOVA Chamber Music Series. In this role, SoSCC sponsored the following composers, listed chronologically by performance
- November 1, 2015 – “New Paths” featuring works by Andrew Norman
- November 29, 2015 – “Flute, Harp, and Drones” featuring works by Nico Muhly
- January 31, 2016 – “A Sense of Place” – featuring works by Michael Hicks
- Feburary 28, 2016 – “The Mind of a Genius” – featuring a complete performance of A Musical Offering by Mattias Pinscher
- April 3, 2016 – “L’Enfant Terrible at 90”, featuring works by Miguel Chuaqui and Pierre Boulez
- May 22, 2016 – “A Celebratory Finale”, featuring works by Morris Rosenzweig and William Bolcom
- SoSCC was a season sponsor of living composers for each concert of the 2016-17 Subscription Series of NOVA Chamber Music Series; see the first concert’s review and podcast
- SoSCC sponsored the October 25, 2020 NOVA premiere of the film version of Crossroads Rising Tide, composed by Laura Kaminsky and performed by the Fry Street Quartet with Rob Davies
