Commissions and Premieres

As a strong proponent of new music for wind ensemble and chamber winds, I am indebted to all of the wonderful composers who create and share their music with our ensembles and audiences. I am equally grateful to all of the commissioning consortium organizers and partners which allow the Gettysburg College Sunderman Conservatory to play a role in bringing this new music to life.
-Russell McCutcheon

2024 Armando Bayolo, Dispatches from the Anthropocene
Commission completed; consortium premiere planned 2024

2023 Katahj Copley, DOPE
Commission and Consortium Premiere

2023 Elizabeth Bishop, Glacier
World Premiere

2023 Giovanni Santos, Three Latin American Dances
International Premiere: Estonia

2022 Giovanni Santos, Three Latin American Dances
Commission and Consortium Premiere

2022 Steven Bryant, The Automatic Earth
Commission and Consortium Premiere

2020 Ryan Williams, Mandatory Social Distancing
Commission and Consortium Premiere; Virtual Ensemble Project

2020 Brian Balmages, Trust in Angels
Recording Premiere; with Steven Marx, Trumpet

2019 Adam Gorb, Pike’s Peak
Commission and Consortium Premiere

2018 John William Jones, Elegy and Dance for Horn and Wind Ensemble
World Premiere; with Patrick Smith, Horn

2017 James Stephenson, this is most certainly true
Commission and Consortium Premiere

2016 Timothy Mahr, Symphony for Band
Commission and Consortium Premiere

2015 Adam Gorb, Bells Across the Atlantic
Commission and Consortium Premiere

2014 James Syler, Sinfonietta
Commission and Consortium Premiere

2012 Jim Colonna, Fireworks
World premiere

2012 Craig Thomas Naylor, Yes, I Want to Cross Over
Commission and World Premiere

2012 Daniel Kallman, There Was a Composer of Genius...
Commission and Consortium Premiere

2011 Andrew Boysen, Twilight of the Gods
Commission and Consortium Premiere

2009 Dan Bukvich, Inferno
Commission and Consortium Premiere