Piano Spheres regularly commissions composers in keeping with its mission to expand the piano repertoire. Creating a body of new works instigated by Piano Spheres demonstrates our commitment to the importance of creating new and excellent public art. If you’d like to become part of this process, please click here and read about Piano Spheres’ Composer Commissioning Circle. Below are works commissioned by Piano Spheres over the last several years.
1994: Mark Robson: Nocturne (Robson)
1996: Joel Feigen: Variations on a Theme by Arnold Schoenberg (Stein)
2002: Hyo-shin Na: Piano Study No. 3 (Svrcek)
2003: Peyman Farzinpour: Four Vignettes (Stein)
2004: Steven Andrew Taylor: Seven Memorials (Cheng)
2006: Robert Gates: Broken Mirrors: 3 Etudes for Solo Piano (Robson)
2007: Dante de Silva: Piano Sonata No. 1 “Arcata” (Cheng)
2008: Gerald Barry: La Vieux Sourd (Cheng)
2009: John Harbison: Leonard Stein Anagrams (Cheng)
2009: Patricio Da Silva: Fantasy and Nocturne (Robson)
2009: Amy Beth Kirsten: (speak to me) (Ray)
2009: Andrew Waggoner: La Folie (Fantasme on a Ground) (Cheng)
2010: Daniel Strong Godfrey: Night Walk (Cheng)
2012: Bruno Louchouarn: Drive Through (Robson)
2013: Carlos Rafael Rivera: La Quinta del Sordo (Svrcek)
2013: William Kraft: Quilleries for Harpsichord (Cheng)
2013: Joseph Pereira: Six Settings for Solo Piano (Ray)
2014: Nicholas Deyoe: NCTRN (Valitutto)
2014: Kate Moore: Bloodmoon October (Kallay)
2014 & 2015: Frederick Lesemann: Preludes after a Tenor by Guillaume Dufay
2015: Steven Stucky: Sonata (Cheng)
2015: Juhi Bansal: Land of Waking Dreams (Gerpe)
2015: Veronika Krausas: Two Etudes (Vanhauwaert)
2015: Eric Tanguy: Nouvelle Etude (Vanhauwaert)
2015: Thomas Adès: Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face for two pianos (Cheng)
2015: Annie Gosfield: The Dybbuk on Second Avenue (Shpachenko)
2015: Lewis Spratlan: Bangladesh: Louis Kahn’s National Assembly Buildings, Dhaka (Shpachenko)
2016: Dominique Schafer: Aufwind (Ray)
2016: Mu-Xuan Lin: Pale Fire (Ray)
2016: Hugh Levick: Maybe the Story of ‘I’ (Robson)
2016: Ian Dicke: Counterpundit for piano, electronics and video (Kallay)
2016: Laura Karpman: Shrill (Kallay)
2017: A.J. McCaffrey: Doppelgänger (HOCKET)
2018: Juhi Bansal: Fire (Robson)
2018: Robert Gates: Water Music (Robson)
2018: Sarah Gibson: Our Eyes Once Watered (Robson)
2018: Vera Ivanova: Octavissimo (Robson)
2018: Karl Kohn: Chords of Fourths-Some Perfect, Some Viennese (Robson)
2018: Thomas Kotcheff: Etude No. 1: Poorless Wheat Dogs (Robson)
2018: Anne LeBaron: Les Confidences du Salon (Robson)
2018: Bruno Louchouarn: Nocturne Nr. 2: Songes entre chien et loup (Robson)
2018: Nick Norton: Etude avant l’arret du temps, for 2 or more pianos (Robson)
2018: Vicki Ray: Treize (Robson)
2018: Mark Robson: Les debris d’un reve — for piano and electronic track (Robson)
2018: Daniel Rothman: Calligramme acoustique: ho age a Ap aire…mm ll in o (Robson)
2020: Paul Cornish: Prelude Spheres (Cornish)
2020: Matt Sargent: Songs, clouds (Anderson)
2020: David Ghesser: Bagatelles, Nos. 10, 11 and 12 (Milyavskiy)
2020: Carolyn Chen: Northern vs. Southern Lion (Cheng)