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World Premieres

The University of 51视频 World Premiere Composition Series

"The University of 51视频 World Premiere Composition Series is a remarkable event.  Commissioning on an ongoing basis anywhere in the country is rare at best.  To see this type of project at the university level, and at a school without a conservatory orientation, is truly incredible.  The series gives student musicians the extremely unusual opportunity of working with a living composer and gives the audience the unique chance to witness firsthand the evolution of a piece of music and the interpretation by the composer of the very first performance of his work.  The opportunity for dialogue between composer, performer and audience is truly great."
 -----Robert Kapilow – Composer, Conductor, Commentator, Author

WORKS COMMISSIONED AND PREMIERED AT SCRANTON

2024
Nate Sparks
Prelude and March (band)
Miserere Mei / Ave Verum Corpus (choir)
La Gran Conversión (string orchestra with virtuosic cello duo)

2023
Philip Kuehn
The Tree and the Wind (band)
Steps Unseen (choir)

2022
Javier Nero
The Return (band)
One Day (choir)

2021
David Lantz III
To The Ends of The Earth (band & choir)

2020
Peter & Will Anderson
51视频 2020 (band)
Ode to Jude (choir)
(not publicly performed due to pandemic shutdown)

2019
Alex Nguyen
River Song (band)
Take O Lord, Receive (choir)

2018
Brandon Lee
Rest (band)
We Believe (choir)

2017
Erica Von Kleist
Woke (band)
A Silent March (choir)

2016
Nate Sparks
Kisha (band)
Spring Love Song (choir with soloist)

2015
Brian McWhorter
Genesis (band & narrator)
Mutiny (choir/performance artists, spoken soloists, and piano)

2014
Kyle Athayde
Zortziko Dlya Iosif (band)
Cio Che Mangia (unaccompanied choir)
Joseph Boga
Lilly-Haven (choir with piano accompaniment)

2013
Eric Saras
A Short Account of The Destruction of the Indies (choir and brass orchestra)
The Black Hole Inside The Pyramids of Saqqara (band)
Streets of Silence (choir)

2012    
J. Samuel Pilafian
Elegy and Rave (band with expanded percussion)
Joseph P. Boga
In Memoriam: Chris Nelhybel (unaccompanied choir)
(both works composed in memory of Chris Nelhybel)

2011      
Ted Nash
Windows (choir with solo cello)
Mona Passage (band)

2010      
Josh Frielich

New Communion (choir)
Marvel at the Impossible (band) 

2009      
Marcus Printup

How Great Thou Art (choir with trumpet and piano)
Blues in the Orient (band)

2008      
Victor Goines

O Lord, Help Us Find Our Way (choir)
Three Sketches for Band (band) 

2007      
Matthew Herman

A Noiseless, Patient Spider (choir)
Lughnasa (band)

2006      
Jennifer Krupa

Count the Ways (choir)
Jeremy’s Suite (band)

2005      
Jumaane Smith

Spring and Fall (choir)
Journeys (band)

2004      
Jerrold Fisher

Love Songs (band and choir)

2003      
Wycliffe Gordon

Prayer, Acknowledgment, and Celebration (choir)

2003      
Lawrence Wolfe

Cadences (band)

2002      
Hubert Bird
(composed in memory of Vaclav Nelhybel)
Now from the World the Light of God is Gone (choir)
Memoria Perpetua (band)

2001
Lawrence Wolfe

Give Me Liberty! (band and choir)

2000      
Wycliffe Gordon

The Story (choir)
Opus for Bogas (band)

1999      
Brett William Dietz

Stabat Mater (choir)
Pandora’s Box (band)

1998      
Kenneth Amis

Tears I (choir)
Tears II
(choir)
Tears III
(choir)
Rondo ala Kolo (band)

1997      
Vaclav Nelhybel

(posthumous premiere)
Gospodi Pomiluy (band and choir)
Ballade (band)

1996      
Sam Pilafian & Frank Vignola

My Wish for the World (choir)
Gypsy Fire (band)

1995      
Jerome Summers

Sanctus (choir)
The Universe is Dancing (band)

1994      
Alexander Rannie

Fear No More (choir)
Main Title for a Lost Film (band)

1993
Joshua Rosenblum

The Jabberwocky (choir)
Three to Beat the Band (band)

1992      
Robert Starer

Vertue (choir)
The Rolling Earth (band)

1991      
Rev. J. Kevin Waters, S.J.

Psalm 150 (band and choir)

1990      
T. Terry James

B’Guilior Gwyneth Gwyn (choir)
Passacaglia (band)
Fugue in Search of a Subject
(band)

1989      
Hugh Keelan

Juliet in the Heat (choir)
Introduction and Allegro (band)

1988      
Vaclav Nelhybel
(composed in honor of the university's centennial year)
Cornerstone for a New Moon (band and choir)

1987      
J. Rex Mitchell

Thinking to Myself (choir)
Incalzando (band)

1986      
Jonathan Tunick

The Mysterious Cat (choir)
Shakespeare at Dusk (band)

1985      
Robert Kapilow

Psalmistry: In Excelsis Gloria (choir)
Borba (band)

1984      
Vaclav Nelhybel

Agon (band)
My Salvation (clarinet choir, choir)

 

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