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Composer Commissioning

Music Teachers National Association is dedicated to encouraging the creation of new works by American composers and annually assists its affiliated state associations in the generation and performance of new music through the national composer commissioning program. SCMTA, as the MTNA affiliated organization in South Carolina, annually commissions an American composer to write a new work which will premiere at its annual conference.​​

Application and Guidelines

Previous Commissions

  • 2024 • Inga Agrest - Nettie in Red: The Ghost of Dock Street Theatre for voice, piano and vibraphone

  • 2023 • Leonard Mark Lewis - Chanteuse of Midsummer for violin and piano

  • 2022 • Ronald Keith Parks - Dum spiro, spero

  • 2021 • Yiorgos Vassilandonakis - Topsy–turvy

  • 2020 • Seth Custer – Ever Soaring, Ever Singing

  • 2019 • Leonard Mark Lewis – Elegy: In Memoriam of the Emanuel Nine

  • 2018 • Michael S. Bryson – Sing Me Another: Five Folksong Miniatures

  • 2017 • Daniel Musselman – Three Tales for Four Hands

  • 2016 • Jon Jeffrey Grier – Security Lapses

  • 2015 • Seth Custer – End Around

  • 2014 • Tom Dempster – Congaree Voices for four-hand piano and pre-recorded electronic sounds

  • 2013 • Ayala Asherov

  • 2012 • Meira Warshauer – Ocean Calling II: From the Depths for piano duo

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