Premieres and Commissions

Yale Concert Band onstage at Woolsey

Over the last sixty years, American college wind bands have been extremely prolific in commissioning music from the world’s greatest composers. The Yale Concert Band is a pioneer in this regard, having had a commitment to commissioning since the 1950s.

Premieres are listed in bold text. 

Date Composer  Title Type Notes Commissioner
2025 Steven Bryant Electronics and Band Consortium   Duffy
2025 Thomas Duffy MDM Fanfare Commission    Duffy
2024 Nubia Jaime-Donjuan Tundra Consortium   Duffy
2024 Aaron Israel Levin In Between Commission    Duffy
2024 Ryan Lindveit Desire Lines Consortium   Duffy
2024 Rodrigo Martinez Torres Onda Tropical Consortium   Duffy
2024 Robert Honstein Juvenalia for Solo Percussion and Wind Ensemble (trans of orchestral version) (for arx duo)
 		 Commission  YSM alumnus Duffy
2024 Aldemaro Romero Fuga con Pajarillo Consortium   Duffy
2024 Jonathan Weiss Sing Me A Story (SMAS): The Cancer-free Party
 		 Commission  Yale College Alumnus Duffy
2024 Dana Wilson Concerto for Cello and Chamber Wind Ensemble Consortium Faculty - Ithaca College Duffy
2024 Jim Colonna The Pursuit of Happiness Commission    Duffy
2024 Eric Nathan sea piece Consortium Yale College Alumnus Duffy
2024 Nubia Jaime-Donjuan Concertina for Oboe and Wind Ensemble Consortium   Duffy
2024 Gilda Lyons you are here Consortium   Duffy
2024 Assorted Women in Harmoniemusik Consortium   Duffy
2024 Tyson Gholston Davis inner flame…deep and blue
 		 Consortium   Duffy
2024 Daren Hagon (Burning Sled Music) Schwantner tribute Consortium   Duffy
2023 Kevin Day Stride Consortium   Duffy
2022 Ion Concert Media Visual art to “A Child’s Garden of Dreams” Consortium   Duffy
2022 Jennifer Jolley (for Seraph Brass) Dust Consortium   Duffy
2022 Shuying Li Luminance Consortium   Duffy
2022 Tyler Mazone Shut Out Consortium   Duffy
2022 Giovanni Santos Chavez, 1927 Consortium   Duffy
2022 Jesse Turner If Ever I Would Leve You (Kendall Memorial) Consortium   Duffy
2021 D Avshalamov Percussion symphony Consortium   Duffy
2021 Steven Banks (Project 14) Jacob’s Staircase Commission    Duffy
2021 Juan Pablo Contreras Mariachitlan Consortium   Duffy
2021 Wayne Escoffery 
(Project 14)		 Truth to Power Commission    Duffy
2021 Jeff Fuller Afro-Cuban Suite Commission    Duffy
2021 Tania Leon (Project 14) Pregon Es Commission  Pulitzer Prize winner 2021 Duffy
2021 Pamela Z (Project 14) Summons Commission    Duffy
2021 Parker Redcross 
(Project 14)		 Between Breaths Commission  Yale College alumnus Duffy
2020 Susan Botti Vespers Consortium   Duffy
2020 George (“Nick”) Gianopoulos Volstead Act (The) Consortium   Duffy
2019 Ted Hearne In Thrall Commission    Duffy
2019 Hannah Lash In Pieces Consortium Faculty YSM Duffy
2019 Sandy Mehinovic Glock Mute Dances Commission    Duffy
2019 Julia Wolfe Zigzag Consortium Pulitzer Prize 2015 Duffy
2018 Kenneth Amis (Battisti 85th) Celebration Consortium   Duffy
2018 Bruce Broughton Wind ensemble with trombone solo (Joe Alessi) Consortium   Duffy
2018 Katherine Salfelder (Battisti 85th) Reminiscence Consortium YSM alumna Duffy
2018 Peter Van Zandt Lane Hivemind Consortium   Duffy
2018 Michael Weinstein (Battisti 85th) Neopolitan Ode for Wind Ensemble Consortium   Duffy
2017 Tom Davoren Stone Mountain Magic Consortium   Duffy
2016 Andy Akiho Ondine’s Epilogue Consortium YSM alumnus Duffy
2016 Tamar Diesendruck Variant Scenarios Consortium   Duffy
2016 Simon Hutchinson Hiraizumi Consortium   Duffy
2016 Steven Stucky (deceased) in memoriam Marice Stith Commission  Pulitzer Prize 2025 Duffy
2015 Huck Hodge Trumpet concerto Consortium   Duffy
2013 Steven Bryant Trombone concerto for Joe Alessi Consortium   Duffy
2012 Ingraham Marshall A New England Psalter Commission    Duffy
2012 Scott Switzer Breaking Out Commission  YSM Alumnus Duffy
2011 Mark Camphouse Elegy, Prayer and Hymn (in memoriam Michele Dufault) Commission    Duffy
2011 Edward Green Symphony for Band (consortium) Consortium   Duffy
2011 James Mobberly Ascension Consortium   Duffy
2011 Alex Shapiro Immersion Consortium   Duffy
2010 Huck Hodge From the Language of Shadows Consortium   Duffy
2010 Paul Lansky Day Trips concerto for horn (consortium) Commission  Pulitzer Prize winner 1986 Duffy
2009 Craig Thomas Naylor Chickadee Symphony Commission    Duffy
2009 Stephen Newby Chorus & Band  Consortium   Duffy
2009 D.J.  Sparr Flute Concerto: Pecious Metal Consortium   Duffy
2007 Jeffrey Brooks John Henry Consortium YSM alumnus Duffy
2007 Peter Child Triptych for Wind Ensemble Consortium   Duffy
2006 Elliott Schwartz Concertino Consortium   Duffy
2005 Valerie Coleman Roma Consortium   Duffy
2005 David Liptak Music for soprano and wind ensemble Consortium   Duffy
2005 Robert Parker Sicut Incipiat Commission  Yale College/YSM alumnus Duffy
2005 Joseph Turrin Scarecrow (The) (opera with winds) Consortium   Duffy
2005 Jay Wadley Upon Awakening, Still Burning (tpt concerto) Commission    Duffy
2003 Daniel Godfrey Concerto for Piano and Chamber Winds Commission  YSM alumnus, Faculty - Syracuse University Duffy
2003 Charles Young Concerto for Double Bass and Wind Ensemble Consortium   Duffy
2002 Joseph Turrin Illuminations (trombone concerto) Consortium   Duffy
2002 Nebojsa Zivkovic Tales from the Center of the Earth Consortium   Duffy
2001 Kenneth Amis Driven Consortium   Duffy
2001 Michael Colgrass Dreamdancer Consortium Pulitzer Prize winner 1978 Duffy
2001 Michael Gandolfi Vientos y Tangos Consortium   Duffy
2001 Lior Navok Gleans from the Bosom of Darkness Consortium   Duffy
2001 Michael Weinstein Serenade for 12 Instruments Consortium   Duffy
1999 Lukas Zdenek Messaggio Consortium   Duffy
1998 Daron Hagen Bandanna Overture Consortium   Duffy
1998 Alan Terricciano The Night Cafe Commission  Yale College Alumnus Duffy
1998 Joseph Turrin Chronicles Consortium Concerto for Trumpet Duffy
1997 Roberta Sierra Diferencias Consortium Faculty, Cornell University  Duffy
1996 Joshua Rosenblum Arabian Nights Commission  Yale College alumnus Duffy
1995 Warren Benson Harwin’s Ground Bass Consortium Faculty Eastman School of Music Duffy
1995 Sydney Hodkinson Due Cantatis Breves Consortium Faculty, Eastman School of Music Duffy
1995 David Maslanka Mass Consortium   Duffy
1994 Frank Ticheli Blue Shades Consortium   Duffy
1993 Byron Adams Midsummer Music Commission    Duffy
1991 Jonathan Berger A Soweto Lullabye Commission  YSM Faculty Duffy
1990 Gunther Schuller Song and Dance Consortium ulitzer Prize winner 1994 Duffy
1989 Timothy Olsen Cap and Gown March Commission  YSM alumnus Duffy
1988 Timothy Olsen Colorondo Commission  YSM alumus Duffy
1988 Augusta Read Thomas Lark and Wheatfield Commission  Gusty withdrew this piece and asked that we destroy it. I wrote and promised to keep it private but asked that we not detroy it - for archival and historial resons. She agreed. Duffy
1986 Byron Adams Ballade for Piano and Wind Orchestra Commission    Duffy
1985 John Sichel Symphonies of Vamps Commission  YSM alumnus Duffy
1984 Steven Stucky Voyage for Cello and Wind Band Commission  Pulitzer Prize winner 2005 Duffy
1983 Gregory Woodward Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Band Commission    Duffy
1979 David Snow Guernica Commission    Brion
1978 David Mott Earthbound/Skywide Commission    Brion
1977 Cindy McTee Sonic Shades Commission  YSM ALumna Brion
1976 Robert Dick Concerto for Electric Flute and Winds Commission  YSM Alumnus Brion
1976 Robert Morris In Different Voices Commission    Brion
1975 Peter Schickele The Tribe of the Ahasueras Commission  PDQ Bach Brion
1975 Jonathan Elkus The Apocalypse - A Rag Commission    Brion
1974 Barney Childs The Golden Shore Commission    Brion
1974 Henry Brant Sixty Commission    Brion
1973 Alec Wilder Entertainment No. 5 Commission    Brion
1972 Justin Connolly Divisions Commission    Wilson
1971 Yehudi Wyner Canto Cantabile Consortium YSM Alumnus Wilson
1965 Egil Hovland Festival Overture Commission    Wilson
1964 Ian Parrott Broncastell Commission    Wilson
1955 David Kraenbuhl Ritual Commission    Wilson
1949 David Kraenbuhl Variations on a Favorite Nursery Tune Commission    Wilson