Commissions and Premieres

2025
2025

Commissions and Premieres from "Women in Transit"
    Commissions
  • Han Lash: "Orchesography" (World Premiere, April 4, 2025)
  • Tamara McLeod: "Okean" (World Premiere, April 4, 2025)
  • Niloufar Nourbakhsh: "Cavities" (World Premiere, April 4, 2025)

  • Premiere
  • Clark Evans: "Who Are You Now?" (World Premiere, April 4, 2025)

Premieres from "Call for Scores: Solo Piano, Vol. 2"
    Premieres
  • Ye-Chong Jeon, "Drum of Creation from Shiva Nataraja" (West Coast Premiere, February 22, 2025)
  • Albert de la Fuente, Sonata, Movement 1 (World Premiere, February 22, 2025)
  • Jon Jeffrey Grier, "Quantum Entanglement" (World Premiere, February 22, 2025)
  • Judith Shatin, "Scirocco" (West Coast Premiere, February 22, 2025)
  • Lilyanne Dorilas, "Black Amber" (World Premiere, February 22, 2025)
  • Michael Coleman, "Eastern Shore Rag" (West Coast Premiere, February 22, 2025)

Commissions and Premieres from "Midnight Serenades: Music by Women and Nonbinary Composers"
    Commissions
  • Lucy Chen: "Exhalation" (World Premiere, January 25, 2025)
  • Madeline Clara Cheng: "The Fisherman's Post" (World Premiere, January 25, 2025)

  • Premiere
  • Devon Lee: "What I Know About Living" (West Coast Premiere, January 25, 2025)
2024
2024

Commissions and Premieres from "In Motion"
    Commissions
  • Mary Bianco: "Oboe Meeets Piano" (World Premiere, November 8, 2024)
  • Ursula Kwong-Brown: "And I Made My Way, Deciphering That Fire" (World Premiere, November 8, 2024)
  • Darian Donovan Thomas: "Ubi Lux Floret" (World Premiere, November 8, 2024)
    Premiere
  • Zhou Tian: Majestic Bells (California Premiere, November 8, 2024)

Commissions and Premieres from "Expression: Ism"
    Commissions
  • David Garner: Piano Trio No. 2 (World Premiere, April 5, 2024)
  • TJ Martin: a new arrangement of Sieben Fruehe Lieder by Alban Berg, for soprano, English horn, cello, and vibraphone (World Premiere, April 5, 2024)
  • Valerie Liu: "Mystic Trio" for English horn, cello, and piano (World Premiere, April 5, 2024)
    Premiere
  • Britney Dawn Do: "unmute" for piano trio and multimedia(World Premiere, April 5, 2024)

Commissions and Premieres from "Quest: Music by Women and Nonbinary Composers"
    Commission
  • Tamara McLeod: "Spent" for piano trio (World Premiere, January 20, 2024)
    Premieres
  • Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Quest (West Coast Premiere, January 20, 2024)
  • Alex Temple: Microphages (West Coast Premiere, January 20, 2024)
2023
2023

Commissions and Premieres from "Crystal: 15th Anniversary Celebration"
    Commissions
  • Vivian Fung: "Sparkle" for percussion (World Premiere, June 3, 2023)
  • Marcus Norris: "Igbo Landing" for solo piano (World Premiere, June 3, 2023)

Commissions and Premieres from "Fractured Light"
    Commissions
  • Juhi Bansal: "Rivers of Light" for piano trio (World Premiere, April 15, 2023)
  • inti figgis-vizueta: "Shadow in the Garden" for piano trio (World Premiere, April 15, 2023)
  • Michael Robert Smith: "Refractions" for cello and piano (World Premiere, April 15, 2023)

Commissions and Premieres from "Mosaic: Music by Women and Non-binary Composers"
    Commissions
  • Mary Bianco: "Cello Waltz in Counterpoint" for cello and piano (World Premiere, January 29, 2023)
  • Dawn Norfleet: "Prologo and Celestine" for violin and piano (World Premiere, January 29, 2023)

  • Premieres
  • Jay Parenas: Sketch" for piano trio and multimedia(World Premiere, April 15, 2023)
  • Pamela Z: "Only If It's Asked For" for vibraphone and tape (SF Premiere, April 15, 2023)
  • Jennifer Higdon: songs from "Civil Words" for voice and piano (West Coast Premiere, January 29, 2023)
  • Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Cello Sonata for cello and piano (West Coast Premiere, January 29, 2023)
  • Yaz Lancaster: "Mosaic" for piano (California Premiere, January 29, 2023)
  • Jennifer Jolley: Democracy Dies in Darkness for piano (California Premiere, January 29, 2023)
2022
2022

Commissions and Premieres from "CelesTrios"
    Commissions
  • Elena Ruehr: "Celebration 15" for piano trio (World premiere, October 15, 2022)

Commissions and Premieres from "Dark Universe/ Mysterious Spaces"
    Commissions
  • Vivian Fung: "Shimmer" for percussion (World Premiere, April 9, 2022, SF)
  • David Garner: "Four Vectors" for cello, double bass, and vibraphone (World Premiere, April 9, 2022, SF)
  • Andrew Harlan: "Umbra" for double bass and electronics (World Premiere, April 9, 2022, SF)
  • Seo Yoon Soyoona Kim: "Where the Sun Blazes Like an Immortal Being" for solo cello (World Premiere, April 9, 2022, SF)
  • Stephanie Neuman: "HydroCosmic Echoes" for cello, double bass, vibraphone, and piano (World Premiere, April 9, 2022, SF)
  • Nicholas Denton Protsack: "A Mind in the Branches" for three or more instruments (World Premiere, April 9, 2022, SF)

  • Premiere
  • Anping Chen: "The Path" for cello and multimedia (student composition competition award winner) (World Premiere, April 9, 2022, SF)

Commissions and Premieres from "Below the Surface: Music by Women Composers"
    Commission
  • Emily Doolittle: "Below the Surface" for soprano and piano (World Premiere, October 15, 2021, SF)
2021
2021

Commissions and Premieres from Alchemy
    Commissions
  • Mary Bianco: "Cello Solo For Abby" (World Premiere, October 15, 2021, SF)
  • Brennan Stokes: "The Unseen" for soprano and piano (Poet: Sara Teasdale, World Premiere, October 15, 2021, SF)

  • Premiere
  • Darian Donovan Thomas: "Etudinal Caprice" for piano (World Premiere, October 15, 2021, SF)

Commissions and Premieres from The Cassandra Project: Women's Prophetic Voices
    Commissions
  • David Garner: "Die gefleusterte Zukunft" for soprano and piano trio (Poet: Schiller, World Premiere, April 17, 2021, SF)
  • Hannah Lash: "Wild Sage" for piano trio (World Premiere, April 17, 2021, SF)
  • Valerie Liu: "Cassandra Effect" for cello and piano (World Prmiere, April 17, 2021, SF)
  • Jessica Rudman: "Cassandra, or Don't Girls Love Horses?" for soprano, cello, and piano (Poet: Kendra Preston Leonard, World Premiere, April 17, 2021, SF)

  • Premiere
  • Mary Kouyoumdjian, "Moerae" (The Fates), for piano trio (West Coast Premiere, April 17, 2021, SF)
2020
2020

Commissions and Premieres from Old Becomes New
    Commissions
  • Mary Bianco: "Are You Born?" for soprano and piano (Poet: Muriel Rukeyser, World Premiere, November 20, 2020, SF)
  • Mary Bianco:"Etude for Margaret" for solo piano (World Premiere, November 20, 2020, SF)

  • Premiere
  • Juliana Hall, "Through the Guarded Gate" voice, piano (Poet: Margaret Widdemer, California Premiere, November 20, 2020, SF)

Commissions from Mothers & Daughters
  • Elinor Armer: "Matrix," for soprano and piano (Poets: Ursula Le Guin and Rella Lossy, World Premiere, March 8, 2020, SF)
  • David Garner: "The Light Within the Dark, for soprano, English horn, violin, cello, and piano (Poets: Gini Savage and Rhina Espaillat, World Premiere, March 8, 2020, SF)
  • Brennan Stokes: "Mother Love" for soprano, violin, and piano (Poet: Rita Dove, World Premiere, March 8, 2020, SF)

Commission from Blooming Flowers: Music by Women Composers
  • Weiwei Miao: "Blooming Flowers, Full Moon," January 25, 2020, SF
2019
2019
Commissions from The Film Noir Project
  • Lennie Moore: Duo, for cello and piano (World Premiere, April 6, SF)
  • David Garner: Elegy for David Raksin, for solo cello (World premiere, April 6, SF)
  • Polina Nazaykinskaya, Waltz-noir, for cello and piano (World premiere, April 6, SF)
  • Aleksandra Vrebalov: Indigo Codes, for cello and piano (World Premiere, April 6, SF)
  • Charlie Sehres (student composition winner of the "Best Sound Track to a Film Noir Clip" competition)(World premiere, April 6, SF)

  • Premieres from 56x54, E4TT's first Call for Scores
    • Carlos dos Santos, "Eu durmo comigo," soprano, piano (Poet: Angelica Freitas, World premiere, January 26, "56x54: But Wait! There's More!" SF)
    • Scott Etan Feiner, "Paper Money," soprano, piano (Poet: Barbara Crooker, West Coast Premiere, January 26, "56x54: But Wait! There's More!" SF)
    • Sam Krahn, "Missed Connections," selections (Poet: Craigslist listings, West Coast Premiere, January 26, "56x54: But Wait! There's More!" SF)
    • Derek Jenkins, "Nach Raum und Zeit, #1-3 (Poet: var., West Coast Premiere, January 26, "56x54: But Wait! There's More!" SF)
    • Melanie Mitrano, "Phobias & Infatuations, #3-4" for soprano, piano (Poet: Melanie Mitrano, West Coast Premiere, January 26, "56x54: But Wait! There's More!" SF)
    2018
    2018
    Commissions from Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan
    • David Garner: Die Eichne Tuer, for soprano, English horn, violin, cello, piano (Poet: Paul Celan, World Premiere, April 15, SF)
    • Jared Redmond: Nachtlang, for soprano, cello, piano (Poet: Paul Celan, World premiere, April 15, SF)
    • Stephen Eddins: A Song for the End of the World, for soprano, cello, piano (Poet: Czeslaw Milosz, in translation by Anthony Milosz, World Premiere, April 15, SF)

    Premieres from 56x54, E4TT's first Call for Scores
    • R. Michael Daugherty, "The Sandpiper" for soprano, cello, piano (Poet: Celia Thaxter, World Premiere, June 29, "56x54: Focus on the Cello," SF)
    • Juliana Hall: Lovestars, for soprano, cello, piano (Poet: e.e.cummings, West Coast premiere, February 4, "56x54+Gorecki," SF)
    • Leah Kennedy: "Love's Dissolve," for soprano, violin, cello, and piano (selections) (Poet: Susan Adams-Johnson, West Coast Premiere, February 4, "56x54+Gorecki," SF)
    • Lawrence Kramer: "Ricercar" for solo cello (World Premiere, June 29 "56x54: Focus on the Cello," SF)
    • David Luna: "From Lamentations: I am one that has seen affliction" for soprano, cello, and piano (World Premiere: June 29, "56x5: Focus on the Cello," SF)
    • Mike McFerron: Winter Solstice, for cello and piano (West Coast Premiere, February 4, "56x54+Gorecki," SF)
    • Weiwei Miao: "The Road Not Taken" (Poet: Robert Frost, World Premiere, February 4, "56x54+Gorecki," SF)
    • Gene Pritsker: "In School-Days" for soprano and cello(Poet: Conrad Aiken, West Coast Premiere, " June 29, "56x54: Focus on the Cello," SF)
    • Frederick Schipizky: "Sonia's Letters" (U.S. Premiere, June 29, "56x54: Focus on the Cello," SF)
    • Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz: "Manic Screaming" for soprano, cello, and piano (Poet: Cheryl Yuzik, World Premiere, June 29, "56x54: Focus on the Cello", SF)
    Commission from The "Guernica" Project
    • David Garner: Ricercar on "Pablo Picasso," for solo piano (U.S. Premiere, November 19, Berkeley)

    Other
    • Mercedes Zavala: "La coleccion de haikus" (West Coast Premiere, February 24, Special Solo Recital, Berkeley)
    • David Garner: "Bagatelle alla fugato" (World Premiere, February 24, Special Solo Recital, Berkeley)
    2017
    2017
    Commissions from The "Guernica" Project
    • Jeffrey Hoover: Guernica, for soprano, violin, cello, piano (Poet: various, April 8, The "Guernica" Project, SF)
    • David Garner: Ricercar on "Pablo Picasso," for solo piano (World Premiere, October 19, The "Guernica Project tour, Madrid, Spain)

    Premieres from 56x54, E4TT's first Call for Scores
    • Patrick Castillo: Incident, for cello and piano (West Coast Premiere, November 19, "56x54+Armer+Garner," Berkeley)
    • Mario Carro, "Alta Mar" (U.S. Premiere, April 8, "The "Guernica" Project," SF)
    • Morgan Greenwood: Birds in a Particle Motion, for solo cello (West Coast Premiere, November 19, "56x54+Armer+Garner," Berkeley)
    • Jeffrey Hoover: "Burning Giraffe" (West Coast premiere, April 8, "The "Guernica" Project," SF)
    • Molly Joyce, "One" (West Coast premiere, June 4, "56x54 Redux," SF)
    • Andrew List: On the Wing, for soprano and piano (selections) (West Coast Premiere, November 19, "56x54+Armer+Garner," Berkeley)
    • Eden Lonsdale: "Mosaic" (U.S. premiere, June 4, "56x54 Redux," SF)
    • Daniel Mehdizadeh: Cello Sonata (U.S. premiere, June 4, "56x54 Redux," SF)
    • Justin Merritt: "Three Prophecies, #3: the great famine" (West Coast premiere, October 30, 56x54, Berkeley)
    • Klaus Miehling: "Nanny" (Poet: Charles Leconte de Lisle, world premiere, January 17, "International/Modern," SF)
    • Klaus Miehling: "Larmes" (Poet: Jean Richepin, World premiere, January 17, "Internationa/Modern,"SF)
    • Stephen Mitton: "Urban Haikus (selections) (U.S. premiere, June 4, "56x54 Redux," SF)
    • Polina Nazaykinskaya: "A Glimpse of Hope" (West Coast premiere, January 17, "International/Modern," SF)
    • William Price: A Southern Prelude, for piano (West Coast Premiere, November 19, "56x54+Armer+Garner," Berkeley)
    • Justin Henry Rubin: "Day That I Have Loved" (Poet: Rupert Brooke) (world premiere, June 4, "56x54 Redux," SF)
    • Grace Xu Schott: "Capoeira" (West Coast premiere, June 4, "56x54 Redux," SF)
    • Alexander Skripko: "The Child on the Shore" from "Three Songs of Ursula Le Guin" (West Coast premiere, June 4, "56x54 Redux," SF)
    • Christopher Wicks: Love Is Strong As Death, and A Song for All Maries, from "Four Songs on Poems by Christina Rossetti" (West Coast premiere, June 4, "56x54 Redux," SF)
    • Mercedes Zavala: "Ha nacido el dolor," from "La sed" (U.S. premiere, April 8, "The "Guernica" Project," SF)

    Other
    • Martyna Kosecka: "Nepheles" (U.S. premiere, June 4, "56x54 Redux," SF)
    • Franz Waxman: "The Little Mouse" and "The Garden" (from "The Song from Terezin," World premiere of new arrangements for E4TT, January 17, "International/Modern, SF)
    2016
    2016
    Commission from the Jewish Music & Poetry Project in Krakow
  • Martyna Kosecka: Nepheles (solo piano)


  • Commissions from Women's Love and Loss
    • Emma Logan: Songs from the Book of Light (Poet: Lucille Clifton, June 11, Berkeley)
    • Judith Shatin: A Line-Storm Song (Poet: Robert Frost; also part of JMPP, June 11, Berkeley)
    • Martha Stoddard: Hurt Hawks Composer (Poet: Robinson Jeffers, June 11, 2016)

    Premieres from 56x54, E4TT's first Call for Scores
    • Roger Ames, "Summer Sang in Me" (#1-2) (West Coast premiere, October 30, "56x54 #1," Berkeley)
    • Naftali Schindler, "Sonnetti di Petrarca, #4 (West Coast premiere, October 30, "56x54 #1," Berkeley)
    • Bartosz Smoragiewicz, "Bagatelles" (#1-2, West Coast premiere, #3-5, U.S. premiere, October 30, "56x54 #1, Berkeley)

    Other
    • Bruce Nalezny, "Toccata" (World Premiere, dedicated to Dale Tsang, 56x54 #1, Berkeley)
    2015
    2015
    Commissions from the Jewish Music & Poetry Project
    • Kurt Erickson: Die schönen Wunder (Poet: Gertrud Kolmar, April 19, SF)
    • David Garner: Mein blaues Klavier (Poet: Else Lasker-Schüler, April 19, SF)
    • William Ludtke: Three Songs, Op. 155 (Poet Marcia Falk, April 29, Berkeley)
    • Judith Shatin: Wedding Song, new arrangement (Poet: Christopher Marlowe, April 19, SF)
    2014
    2014
    Commissions from the Jewish Music & Poetry Project
    • David Garner: Capriccio for cello & piano (November 20, SF)
    • David Garner: Song Is a Monument (Poet: Yala Korwin, March 29, Berkeley)
    • David Garner: Phönix (#2 and #4, Poet: Rose Ausländer, March 29, SF)
    • Ruth Lomon: Der Ewige Segne, new arrangement (Poet: Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal, March 29, Berkeley)
    • Elena Ruehr: Winter Solstice Songs (Poet: Marcia Falk, March 29, Berkeley)
    • Laura Schwendinger: Kay Ryan Songs (Poet: Kay Ryan, November 20, SF)
    2013
    2013
    Commission from the Jewish Music & Poetry Project
    David Garner: Phönix (Poet: Rose Ausländer, April 5, SF)
    2012
    2012
    Commission from the Jewish Music & Poetry Project
    David Garner: "Chanson fuer Morgen" (#7: Poet: Mascha Kaléko), October 21, Berlin
    2011
    2011
    Commission from the Jewish Music & Poetry Project
    David Garner: Chanson für Morgen (Poet: Mascha Kaléko, April 2, Berkeley