Commissions

The creation of new music for the keyboard is an important part of The Gilmore’s overall mission. Each Gilmore International Keyboard Festival includes the premiere of newly commissioned work for keyboard instruments. Listed below are the compositions commissioned by The Gilmore solely, or in collaboration, since its inception in 1991.

Year	Composer	Title / Description of Piece	Co-Commissioned By	Commissioned For
2011	Mason Bates	Devil’s Radio		Yuja Wang (2006 GYA)
2010	Oliver Knussen	Ophelia’s Last Dance	Gilmore Russell Gabier Fund	Kirill Gerstein (2010 GA)
2010	Nico Muhly	Drones & Piano	Joan Sharda	Bruce Brubaker
2009	Fred Hersch	Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky		Natasha Paremski (2006 GYA)
2008	Richard Danielpour	Fantasy for Piano		Adam Golka (2008 GYA)
2008	Yevgeniy Sharlat	Sonata (2008)		Christopher Falzone (2004 GYA)
2008	Frederick Rzewski	Natural Things, for piano and chamber ensemble	Opus 21 and Carnegie Hall	Opus 21
2006	Carl Vine	3rd Piano Sonata	Australian Arts Council & The Colburn School	Elizabeth Schumann (2004 GYA)
2006	Elliott Carter	Intermittences	Carnegie Hall	Peter Serkin
2006	Curtis Curtis-Smith	Concerto for violin, piano, and strings	Kuopio Symphony Orchestra (Finland) and an anonymous local donor	Ralf Gothóni & Elina Vahälä / KSO
2004	Richard Adams	Tandem Voices, for two pianos & percussion ensemble	Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra & the Western Michigan University Centennial Committee	KSO; Lori Sims & Silvia Roederer
2004	Derek Bermél – William Bolcom – C. Curtis-Smith – David Del Tredici – Lukas Foss – Ralf Gothóni – Fred Hersch – Jennifer Higdon – Fred Lerdahl – Bright Sheng – Stanley Walden – Mischa Sarche Zupko	“Thirteen Ways of Looking at The Goldberg,” Variations on the Aria from the J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations		Gilbert Kalish
2004	Bruce Brubaker	PIANOMorphosis, a multi-disciplinary recital, with music by John Adams and Philip Glass		Bruce Brubaker
2002	Basil Twist	Basil Twist’s Petrushka, a puppet version of the Stravinsky ballet, set for two pianos	Lincoln Center and the Walker Institute	Basil Twist
2000	Louis Andriessen, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Chen Yi, Hannibal, John Harbison, Wolfgang Rihm, Frederic Rzewski, Tan Dun and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich	The Carnegie Hall Millennium Piano Book	Carnegie Hall	Ursula Oppens
1998	Michael Daugherty	Route 66, for orchestra	The National Endowment for the Arts	Detroit Symphony Orchestra
1994	Lowell Lieberman	Nocturne for solo piano	Peter Serkin	Peter Serkin
1994	Ned Rorem	Piano Concerto No. 4	Curtis Institute (Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation) & the National Endowment for the Arts	KSO / Gary Graffman
1991	Ramon Zupko	Fluxus No. 9 for piano and tape		Abraham Stockman
1991	Curtis Curtis-Smith	Concerto for left hand and orchestra		KSO / Leon Fleisher