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

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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 Stefan Sanders 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 RAINN: 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

Chelsea Komschlies’s Mycelialore: Illinois premiere by the Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra and artistic director Giancarlo Guerrero on August 13, 2025

Marina López’s Moño: world premiere by the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and music director Eckart Preu on August 16, 2025

Chelsea Komschlies’s Mycelialore: Ohio premiere by the Lima Symphony Orchestra and music director Andrew Crust on October 11, 2025

Meilina Tsui’s Floridian Symphony: Tennessee premiere by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and music director Aram Demirjian on October 16 and 17, 2025

Karena Ingram’s RAINN: Louisiana premiere by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and music director Matthew Kraemer on October 23, 2025

Moni (Jasmine) Guo’s the sound of where i came from: world premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and music director Fabio Luisi on November 20, 21, and 22, 2025

2026

Andreia Pinto Correia’s Ciprés: New Jersey premiere by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and music director Rossen Milanov on January 10 and 11, 2026

Angel Lam’s Please let there be a paradise…: Wisconsin premiere by the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and music director Andrew Sewell on February 27, 2026

Moni (Jasmine) Guo’s the sound of where i came from: Virginia premiere by the Richmond Symphony and music director Valentina Peleggi on March 7 and 8, 2026

Stacy Garrop’s Goddess Triptych: Louisiana premiere by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and music director Matthew Kraemer on March 12, 2026

Moni (Jasmine) Guo’s the sound of where i came from: Missouri premiere by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and music director Stéphane Denève on March 27 and 28, 2026

Brittany J. Green’s TESTIFY!: Oregon premiere by the Oregon Symphony and music director David Danzmyr on May 30 and 31, 2026

Check back soon! Additional dates will be announced.