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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
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