2007/2008

Guillaume Couture (arr. Alain Trudel) / Le souvenir

Charles A.E. Harriss (arr. Alain Trudel) / The Happy Birds

Gena Branscombe (arr. Alain Trudel) / Serenade

Ernest Lavigne (arr. Alain Trudel) / Novembre

Kochan, Moody / Dream

Kochan, Colledge, Kytasty, Moody / Wedding Song

Moody, Kytasty / Trans-Siberian Blues

Kochan, Moody / Call

Kochan, Kytasty, Colledge / Bukovynska Koliadka

Moody / Zdjelar

Kochan, Kytasty / Pavochka and Stone Age Carol

Jocelyn Morlock / Nostalgia
(World Premiere / Canada Council Commission)

Glenn Buhr / new composition
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

André Prévost / Scherzo

2006/2007

Michael Matthews / The Language of Water, for 22 Solo Strings
(World Premiere / Manitoba Arts Council Commission)

Michael Oesterle, Richard Moody, Amir Amiri & Andrea Young,
Marilyn Lerner, Phil Dwyer, Douglas Schmidt / DSCH project
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Traditional / Quelle rejouissance, Huron Carol, Une fleur m’a dit,
Cher infant qui viens de naitre

Madrigaïa / C’est Noël, Le Large, Ma belle etoile, Heart Song

Michelle Grégoire / Miles Away

Michelle Grégoire / Gratitude Suite
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Hugh Fraser / Mr. J.T.

2005/2006

Robert Turner / Manitoba Memoir

Michael Oesterle / Ironman, for solo cello and chamber orchestra
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Ana Sokolovic / Toke
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

2004/2005

John Burge / A Light Fantastic Round
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Allan Bell / Serenity
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Randolph Peters / Tango

2003/2004

Jim Hiscott / Concerto for cello and strings
(World Premiere / MAC Commission)

Elizabeth Raum / The Phantom Drum, for oboe, strings and percussion
(World Premiere)

Jeffrey Ryan / Vesica Piscis, for strings
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Heather Schmidt / Piano concerto no. 3
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

James Rolfe / Four songs on poems by Walt Whitman (1990)

2002/2003

John Weinzweig / Divertimento no. 1 for strings

Christos Hatzis / Pyrrichean Dances, for viola, percussion and strings
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

John Estacio / Such Sweet Sorrow

David Scott / Brink, for viola and orchestra
(World Premiere / MAC Commission)

2001/2002

Walter Buczynski / Lyric XVI for Strings
(World Premiere / MAC Commission)

Raymond Leudeke / In This World
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

David Ogborn, Jon Pear / 30th Anniversary du Maurier Arts Ltd. Fanfares
(World Premieres / MCO Commissions)

2000/2001

Glenn Buhr / In Gloriam, for cello and chamber orchestra
(World Premiere / MAC Commission)

John Estacio / Such Sweet Sorrow
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Ann Southam / Music for Strings
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

1999/2000

S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté / Concerto for trumpet, clarinet, bassoon and orchestra

Jim Hiscott / The Restless Wind
(World Premiere / MAC Commission)

Melissa Hui / In the Breath of the Night
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Gary Kulesha / Partita for piano and strings
(World Premiere / Canada Council Commission)

Marjan Mozetich / Eldorado, for harp and strings

Randolph Peters / Tango

Sid Robinovitch / Puulik
(World Premiere / MAC Commission)

David Scott / Circular Ruins

Robert Turner / Diverti-Memento, for chamber orchestra
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

1998/1999

John Burke / Joy Be With You
(Winnipeg Premiere / CBC Commission)

Andrew MacDonald / Hermes of the Stars, op. 48 (1998)
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Sid Robinovitch / Canzoni romane (Roman Songs)
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

1997/1998

Glenn Buhr / Ritchot Mass

Malcolm Forsyth / Three Métis Songs from Saskatchewan

Henry Kucharzyk / Walk the Line, cConcerto for solo percussion

Gary Kulesha / Pro et contra, for violin and cello

Michael Matthews / Concerto Grosso
(World Premiere / MAC Commission)

Michael Matthews / Lorca Sketches
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Marjan Mozetich / Affairs of the Heart, concerto for violin and strings
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Kelly Marie Murphy / Circadian Rhythms
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Chan Ka Nin / Poetry on Ice

Randolph Peters / Tango

1996/1997

José Evangelista / Airs d'Espagne, for string orchestra

Malcolm Forsyth / Evangeline
(World Premiere of Complete Work / Canada Council Commission)

Harry Freedman / Indigo, for 22 strings

Peter Paul Koprowski / Intermezzo for Strings

Andrew P. MacDonald / Free Flight, concerto
for cello and chamber orchestra, op. 40 (1996)
(World Premiere / Canada Council Commission)

Randolph Peters / Tango

1995/1996

Patrick Cardy / Dreams of the Sidhe, for string orchestra
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Chris Paul Harman / Concerto for violin
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Rudolf Komorous / Symphony no. 3 for strings
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Clermont Pepin / Ronde villageoise

David Scott / Circular Ruins
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Sara Turner / Nishka Onagamon (Nishka's Lullaby)
(World Premiere / Manitoba Arts Council Commission)

1994/1995

Allan Bell / Arche III, for violin, strings and percussion
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Laurie Duncan / Cantus Elegiacus
(World Premiere / MCO Commission, funded by Manitoba Arts Council)

Daniel Foley / Symphony no.3 (l'Esperance de vie)
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Harry Freedman / Indigo
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Peter Paul Koprowski / Intermezzo
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

1993/1994

T.P. Carrabré / Symphony for strings
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Malcolm Forsyth / Evangeline
(World Premiere / MCO Commission, funded by Canada Council)

Peter Hannan / Earth
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Alain Perron / Sans Égard
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

David Scott / Gravity & Light
(World Premiere / MCO Commission, funded by Manitoba Arts Council)

Ann Southam / Webster's Spin
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

1992/1993

S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté / Concertino, for strings

S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté / Molto Sostenuto, for strings

Jose Evangelista / Airs d'Espagne
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Steven Gellman / Child Play
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

James Gordon / Gremlins in the Steeples
(World Premiere / Edward Johnson Music Foundation Commission)

Michael Matthews / Between the Wings of Earth
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Randolph Peters / Paradoxes of the Heart
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Robert Turner / Variations and toccata

Owen Underhill / From Angel Station
(World Premiere / MCO Commission)

1991/1992

Violet Archer / Divertimento for piano and strings

Glenn Buhr / Three Pieces for Strings
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Bruce Carlson / Chronlyricles of Spring
(World Premiere / MCO Commission, funded by Manitoba Arts Council)

Stewart Grant / Prelude and Fugue for Strings

Gary Kulesha / Concerto for Recorder and Small Orchestra
(World Premiere / MCO Commission, funded by Canada Council)

Andrew MacDonald / Violin concerto, op. 22
(World Premiere)

Philippe Magnan / An arrangement on themes from I Vespri Siciliano by Verdi

Laurie Duncan, Sid Robinovitch / 20th Anniversary du Maurier Arts Ltd. Fanfares

David Scott, Sara Turner / (World Premieres / MCO Commissions)

1990/1991

Allan Bell / Drawing Down the Moon

Jean Coulthard / Autumn Symphony

S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté / Bassoon concerto

George Fiala / Concertino for Piano,Trumpet and Strings
Divertimento capriccioso, for alto flute
(World Premiere)

Malcolm Forsyth / Valley of a Thousand Hills

Randolph Peters / Three Quarks for Muster Mark!

Robert Turner / Manitoba Memoir
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

1989/1990

Gerald Bales / Essay for Strings

Malcolm Forsyth / Rhapsody for Strings

Larysa Kuzmenko / Concertino for Vibraphone and Marimba

Oscar Morawetz / Sinfonietta for Strings

Chan Ka Nin / Treasured Pasture Leisure Pleasure
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Jerome Summers / Caprice

1988/1989

Gerald Bales / Rhapsody for Organ and Orchestra

Neil Chotem / Pizza for Tony

Rhapsody on a Spanish theme (El Vito)
(World Premiere / Guelph Festival Commission)

Malcolm Forsyth / Valley of a Thousand Hills
(World Premiere / Guelph Festival Commission)

Three Metis Songs from Saskatchewan

Arthur PoIson / Concertino for Violin and Strings

R. Murray Schafer / Partita for String Orchestra

Norman Sherman / Garden of Love
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

1987/1988

Jacques Hétu / Adagio and Rondo for Strings, Trumpet Concerto
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Rudolf Komorous / Serenade for Strings

Andrew MacDonald / Song of Life's Complaint
(Canadian Premiere)

Pierre Mercure / Divertissement for String Quartet and String Orchestra

R. Murray Schafer / In Memoriam Alberto Guerrero

1986/1987

Glenn Buhr / Danses abstraites
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Jean Coulthard / Bird of Dawning Singeth All Night Long

Mark Hand / Reel Mysterieux
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Arthur PoIson / Concerto for Flute and Orchestra

Sidney Robinovitch / Prairie Sketches
(World Premiere / MCO Commission)

Donald Steven / Piece for Strings
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

John Weinzweig / Divertimento for Clarinet and Strings

1985/1986

Walter Buczinski / Three Serenades

Stephen Chatman / Song of Solomon
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Harry Freedman / Tableau
Jacques Hétu / Adagio and rondo for strings

Gary Kulesha / Serenade for Strings
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Leslie Mann / Concertini in the Old Style

Pierre Mercure / Kaleidoscope

R. Murray Schafer / Arcana

Robert Turner / Encounter
(World Premiere / Canadian Music Competition Commission)
Time for Three
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Healey Willan / Poem for String Orchestra

1984/1985

Walter Buczinski / Fantasy for Accordion and Orchestra

Claude Champagne / Concertino Grosso

Samuel Dolin / Concerto for Accordion and Orchestra

Alan Heard / Symphony no.2
(World Premiere / MCO Commission)

Jacques Hétu / Concerto for clarinet, op. 37
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Alexina Louie / Concerto for piano and orchestra
(World Premiere / CBC Commission)

Oscar Morawetz / Sinfonietta for strings

John Weinzweig / Divertimento for horn and string orchestra

 

 

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