Virginia B. Toulmin Orchestral Commissions Program: Upcoming Premieres and Events

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2024

Andreia Pinto Correia’s Ciprés: Canadian premiere by the National Arts Centre Orchestra and conductor Joana Carneiro on June 12 and 13, 2024

Wang Lu’s Surge: Colorado premiere by the Aspen Festival Orchestra and conductor Dima Slobodeniouk on July 7, 2024

Brittany J. Green’s TESTIFY!: world premiere by the Jacksonville Symphony and music director Courtney Lewis on September 27 and 28, 2024

Sarah Gibson’s to make this mountain taller: Idaho premiere by the Idaho State-Civic Symphony and conductor and artistic director Nell Flanders on September 27, 2024

Gity Razaz’s Methuselah (In Chains of Time): Ohio premiere by the Akron Symphony and music director Christopher Wilkins on October 19, 2024

Wang Lu’s Surge: Ohio premiere by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ramón Tebar on October 26 and 27, 2024

Angel Lam’s Please let there be a paradise…: Florida premiere by the Jacksonville Symphony and music director Courtney Lewis on November 22 and 23, 2024

Angel Lam’s Please let there be a paradise…: Utah premiere by the Utah Symphony and conductor Jessica Rivero Altarriba on December 13 and 14, 2024

Meilina Tsui’s Floridian Symphony: world premiere by the Naples Philharmonic and Music Director Alexander Shelley on December 13 and 14, 2024

2025

Chelsea Komschlies’s Mycelialore: world premiere by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and music director José Luis Gomez on February 1 and 2, 2025

Brittany J. Green’s TESTIFY!: North Carolina premiere by the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dr. Daniel McCloud on February 22, 2025

Arlene Sierra’s Kiskadee: Texas premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and music director Fabio Luisi on March 6-9, 2025

Angel Lam’s Please let there be a paradise…: Quad Cities premiere by the Quad City Symphony Orchestra and music director Mark Russell Smith on April 5 and 6, 2025

Karena Ingram’s new work: world premiere by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and music director Robert Moody on May 17 and 18, 2025

Gity Razaz’s Methuselah (In Chains of Time): Bay Area premiere by the Berkeley Symphony and music director Joseph Young on June 1, 2025

Check back soon! Additional dates will be announced.