 Commissions
Within our dreams and our aspirations
We find our opportunities
The commissioning process provides an opportunity
For you to support the future of music.
It’s always a pleasure and an honor to have an opportunity
to write a piece for a fellow musician, a commissioning individual, ensemble
or organization. It’s a wonderful process which begins with the “getting
to know you” stage, expands to include a collaboration between me, the composer,
and you, the patron and ends, hopefully, with a musical work which will be an
inspiration for those who have the pleasure of hearing it. As a Patron, you have
the opportunity to invest in works that will allow the future of music to flourish
and will contribute to your own artistic legacy.
In the past, royal families, churches and the wealthiest patrons hired composers
to create new works. In today’s world, the commissioning process allows
dedicated people, organizations and music ensembles to collaborate with a composer
in developing new works which will, hopefully, have lasting value and appeal.
This commissioning process is extremely important to the composer for his/her
livelihood, much as the commissioning of a painting or sculpture is to an artist.
Though there are dedicated organizations that will endow new creative works,
it is far less than in years past, and we composer must find funding from other
sources including members of an audience who have had the pleasure of hearing
a work by a living composer.
No project is too small. A friend’s birthday, wedding, a loved one’s
passing, an anniversary, or an organization’s gala event are just a few
of the many possibilities for bringing a new piece into the world. If you would
be interested in discussing the possibility of my writing a piece for you, please
email me to discuss the kind of piece you’d like me to write and the costs
of composing such a project. Project budgets are flexible and can be within the
reach of anyone interested. A sliding scale, depending on the funding source,
should enable most anyone to have a composition expressly written for s/him.
Works may range in length, style, and number of instruments, for the ultimate
goal of performance.
We are only limited by our own imaginations. Possibilities are endless.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Recently Commissioned Works and Works-In-Progress
Adrienne
has been awarded an Artist-in-Residence Fellowship to the Ucross
Foundation in Wyoming for the fall of 2007. More info and music to come!
(2006-2007) Three Movement New Orchestral Work
Commissioned by the American
Composers Forum and the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration
with Continental Harmony Projects for
the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra and
Choir in Alaska.
(2005-2006) Untitled Song
Commissioned by Roberta and Lawrence Liebenbaum
for the birth of their granddaughter.
To be premiered by Diana Tash, soprano, who performs regularly with The
Los Angeles
Opera
(2005) ASCAP AWARDS for
Concert Music
(2005) Choral Commission by the KENAI CENTRAL
HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR
Under director Renee Henderson for the KCHS
2005 EUROPEAN CONCERT TOUR - #12
(2004) Mu
Phi Epsilon Chapter Grant
(2005) NEW WORK FOR ALTO SAXOPHONE, CLARINET,
VIOLIN AND CELLO
COMMISSIONED BY GARY
GRAY, CLARINET AND DOUG
MASEK, SAXOPHONE
(2005) NEW WORK FOR STRING ORCHESTRA
(2004) Honorarium from the University of
Maryland
To compose Original Music for a New Production
of Cyrano de Bergerac opening in March, 2004
(2004) New Work for Saxophone Quartet commissioned
by Alan Goldman
(2003-04) New Work for Piano Trio commissioned
by Carol Gee
(2003) The
Cherry Tree Carol for medium
voice and piano commissioned by Jorge Mester, conductor & Kimball
Wheeler, Mezzo-Soprano for their friend, Estelle Schlueter, piano.
(2003) New Piano Work commissioned by Kimball Wheeler and Jorge
Mester
(2003) Interiors
For String Orchestra commissioned by Jeannie
Pool for The Church of the Lighted Window
Circadia
Three movements for bassoon and piano commissioned
by Dr. Carolyn Beck 2002
Commissions/Awards/Grants
(2005-2006) Continental Harmony Projects,
under the auspices of the American Composers
Forum and The National Endowment for the Arts, has commissioned
Adrienne to compose a three movement work for chamber ensemble,
orchestra, and choir and orchestra for The Kenai Peninsula Orchestra
and Chorus, and The Pratt Institute in the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.
Performances will take place in June, 2006, August, 2006 and April,
2007 for the 25th Anniversary Festival of the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra.
(2005) Untitled Song,
commissioned by Laurence and Roberta Liebenbaum
in honor of the birth of their first grandchild, will be premiered
by soprano, Diana Tash, of the Los Angeles Opera.
(2004) Commission to write original music for a
new production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" at
the University of Maryland, directed by Susan Einhorn; opening March,
2004.
Finalist in the Continental
Harmony Projects 2002, The
American Composers Forum
Commissions from The Los Angeles Doctors
Symphony Orchestra,
1999, 2000, 2002
Meet the Composers, Inc. grants
with funding from ASCAP,
the Metropolitan
Life Foundation, and the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Commission from The American Jazz Philharmonic for the Henry
Mancini Institute, 1997 “Serenade For Alto
Sax, Trumpet and Orchestra”
Commission: The Arnold Kotis Foundation Membership Circle Award
Meet The Composer Grant for "Night" premiered by The
Gregg Smith Singers in July, 1999
Commission from Corky
Hale Stoller for a new Jazz Harp Piece, 2001
Composer in Residence for The
Wagner Ensemble, 1999-2002
Composer In Residence, The Los Angeles
Doctors Symphony Orchestra
1999-2002
Finalist in three States , The
American Composers Forum Continental Harmony Projects 2000
The
Margaret Jory Music Copying Assistance Program,
1999, 2000
ASCAP Awards
for 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 |
