A list of world premieres by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Some omissions may exist and this list does not include our Young & Emerging Composers compositions – all of which since 1980 are in their own right World Premieres.
| Composer | Title (*commissioned) | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Adams, Leslie | Love Expressions* | 2-17-91 |
| Adler, Samuel | Time in Tempest Everywhere* | 5-1-95 |
| Albright, William | Marcia Funebre* | 3-18-90 |
| Allen, Jeremy | Once More Before We Part | 3-21-14 |
| Anderson, T.J. | Chamber Concerto (Remembrances)* | 10-20-88 |
| Aschaffenburg, Walter | Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra | 1-25-87 |
| Asia, Daniel | Ossabaw Island Dream* | 1-17-83 |
| Austin, Larry | Sinfonia Concertante* | 10-19-86 |
| Baker, Claude | Awaking the Winds* | I -23-94 |
| Baker, David | Parallel Planes* | 4-6-92 |
| Bernstein, David | Playonthree | 5-1-85 |
| Bianchi, Frederick | Duchamp Variations* | 9-21-92 |
| Biggs, Hayes | To Becalme His Fever* | 11-20-95 |
| Brayton, Dana | Pulse | 11-8-83 |
| Bridgewater, Cecil | New Dawn* | 3-18-90 |
| Brooks, William | Dancing on Your Grave* | 3-18-90 |
| Brouwer, Margaret | Mandala | 9-24-01 |
| Bubalo, Rudolph | Concerto for Clarinet* | 4-18-83 |
| Bubalo, Rudolph | Concertino* | 1-27-85 |
| Bubalo, Rudolph | The Sound of Isness (Strobing)* | 11-8-87 |
| Bubalo, Rudolph | Offset I for Orchestra and Synthesizers | 6-9-89 |
| Bubalo, Rudolph | Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra | 11-1-92 |
| Burt, George | Exit Music 111 | 11-16-86 |
| Chance, Nancy Laird | Planasthai* | 5-4-92 |
| Chen, Shih-Hui | 66 Times | 11-20-95 |
| Chobanian, Loris | Ctesiphon* | 3-13-88 |
| Chobanian, Loris | Sinfonietta for Cello and Chamber Orchestra | 10-1-89 |
| Coleman, Randolph | Soundprint VI (1982) | 3-22-82 |
| Coleman, Randolph | “Dancing in the Dark”* | 2-4-90 |
| Cooper, Paul | Love Songs & Dances | 9-30-90 |
| Creque, Neal | Mind’s Eye* | 4-6-92 |
| Cummings, Conrad | Cassandra* | 3-3-86 |
| Danceanu, Liviu | Florilegium | 1-23-94 |
| Danceanu, Liviu | Chinonic, Op. 67* | 9-18-95 |
| Darcy, Warren | Time and Remembrance* | 4-8-85 |
| Daugherty, Michael | Foes* | 2-6-89 |
| Duckworth, William | Mysterious Numbers* | 4-14-97 |
| Duffy, John | Three Jewish Portraits for Chamber Orchestra* | 1-29-96 |
| Eaton, John | Songs of Desperation and Comfort* | 5-9-94 |
| Eberhard, Dennis | Voix Celestes* | 11-14-83 |
| Eberhard, Dennis | Elegies | 11-3-88 |
| Eberhard, Dennis | Berceuse* | 4-16-89 |
| Eberhard, Dennis | The Bird of Four Hundred Voices* | 1-23-95 |
| Eister, Garry | “Again, Last Night I Dreamt of the Ocean…  | 9-30-84 |
| Finney, Ross Lee | Narrative | 11-8-87 |
| Gallagher, Jack | The Persistence of Memory | 2-27-95 |
| Griebling, Stephen | Habanera | 1-14-91 |
| Harris, Donald | Mermaid Variations* | 2-28-93 |
| Hervig, Richard | The Tree* | 3-5-84 |
| Hervig, Richard | lustorum Animae | 1-14-90 |
| Hirt, James A. | Chromatophores | 6-13-13 |
| Hoffmann, Richard | Two Songs for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra* | 2-3-92 |
| Jenkins, Leroy | Rushing Towards the Madness* | 2-8-88 |
| Johnston, Ben | Songs of Loss | 3-13-88 |
| Kam, Dennis | ad hoc | 4-18-93 |
| Kyr, Robert | Vanished Lightning* | 1-10-93 |
| Kyr, Robert | Infinity’s Edge for 15 Instruments* | 5-6-96 |
| Larsen, Libby | What the Monster Saw* | 11-8-87 |
| Leese, Michael | After the Reign | 11-8-93 |
| Levering, Arthur | Time’s Arrow | 4-22-96 |
| Lewis, James | Doubles Singles Variables | 1-23-94 |
| Logan, Wendell | Roots, Branches, Shapes and Shades (of Green)* | 2-4-91 |
| London, Edwin | In Heinrich’s Shoes | 3-4-85 |
| London, Edwin | Sonnet Haiku | 5-1-85 |
| London, Edwin | Peter Quince at the Clavier | 1-25-87 |
| London, Edwin | Death of Lincoln: A Documentary Opera | 4-29-88 |
| London, Edwin | Meditation in Memoriam* | 6-9-89 |
| London, Edwin | TWO A Marvell’s FOR WORDS | 1-14-90 |
| London, Edwin | A Comedy of Mirrors | 2-28-93 |
| London, Edwin | Before the World Was Made | 3-13-94 |
| London, Edwin | una novella della sera primavera* | 5-6-96 |
| Marinescu, Liviu | Gulag | 5-10-96 |
| Martirano, Salvatore | LON/dons* | 2-6-89 |
| McLean, Priscilla | Wilderness | 1-15-89 |
| Miller, Edward | Beyond the Wheel* | 3-2-87 |
| Miller, Edward | Images from the Eye of a Dolphin* | 2-8-88 |
| Murray, Bain | Evocations* | 4-26-82 |
| Murray, Bain | The City of Cities | 10-14-85 |
| Murray, Bain | The Legend (a fully staged opera) | 5-8-87 |
| Murray, Bain | Mary Stuart: A Queen Betrayed (a fully staged opera) | 3-1-91 |
| Murray, Bain | Nine Epigrams from Vietnam | 11-1-92 |
| Musto, John | Encounters* | 9-21-92 |
| Needham, Clint | Imaginary Dances (Made Visible) | 3-21-14 |
| Nock, Mike | Pandora Was No Lady* | 2-17-97 |
| Perera, Ronald | Five Summer Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson* | 5-4-92 |
| Perera, Ronald | Music for Flute and Orchestra | 4-14-97 |
| Perry, Zenobia Powell | Echoes From the Journey* | 2-17-91 |
| Pettibone, Roslyn | Rings | 1-14-91 |
| Phan, P.Q. | Flash | 1-23-95 |
| Phan, P.Q. | It All Began With a Shot of B52! | 9-29-97 |
Powell, Morgan | Ray’s in the Window | 10-14-85 |
| Powell, Morgan | Red White and Black Blues* | 9-21-92 |
| Primosch, James | The Dark Encounter | 3-18-90 |
| Rands, Bernard | London Serenade* | 4-17-88 |
| Rands, Bernard | Canti dell ‘Eclisse* | 4-17-93 |
| Reynolds, Roger | The Dream of the Infinite Rooms* | 3-2-87 |
| Rindfleisch, Andrew | The Light Fantastic | 9-24-01 |
| Rinehart, John | Scherzo for a Small Orchestra* | 10-21-84 |
| Rollin, Robert | Arches for B-flat Clarinet and Electronic Tape | 5-1-85 |
| Samuelson, Eric | Surface Tension | 10-18-93 |
| Schelle, Michael | Rapscallion | 11-5-90 |
| Schuller, Gunther | Chamber Symphony* | 4-16-89 |
| Schultz, Mark | The sun, split like spun glass | 10-30-94 |
| Shrude, Marilyn | A Gift of Memories* | 5-4-92 |
| Smith, Howie | Passages | 11-16-81 |
| Smith, Howie | Helix 111* | 4-15-84 |
| Smith, Howie | Domino | 9-29-85 |
| Smith, Howie | Song for the Children* | 11-16-86 |
| Smith, Howie | Still Life with Orange | 9-27-87 |
| Smith, Howie | Time Windows | 4-6-92 |
| Smith, Howie | Mobius Strip | 1-23-95 |
| Smith, Steven | Chromo-Synchrony | 3-21-15 |
| Subotnick, Morton | A Desert Flowers* | 3-6-89 |
| Taddie, David | Concertato Amazonia | 3-6-89 |
| Taddie David | Centrifuge | 1-13-92 |
| Taddie, David | Tribute in Memoriam | 1-23-95 |
| Taub, Bruce J. | Of the Wing of Madness | 4-13-86 |
| Taub, Bruce J. | An Often Fatal Malady* | 2-5-91 |
| Taub, Bruce J. | Lady Mondegreen Sings the Blues* | 2-12-96 |
| Thomas, Augusta Read | VIGIL for cello & orchestra* | 11-4-90 |
| Thomas, David | Creation Sermon* | 10-29-95 |
| Thorne, Francis | Symphony No. 6 for Stringed Instruments | 3-4-96 |
| Underhill, Nicholas | Pulp Schumann | 9-18-22 |
| Walker, George | Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra* | 3-12-95 |
| Waters, James | Songs of Life (1986) | 9-28-86 |
| Waters, James | Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra* | 9-22-88 |
| White, Dolores | Crystal Gazing | 3-12-95 |
| White, Tyler Goodrich | Mysterious Barricades* | 5-6-91 |
| Wiley, Frank | Horizon | 4-13-86 |
| Wiley, Frank | Celebration Fanfare: 6 in 1 for 15* | 9-17-94 |
| Winsor, Phil | Mandarin Cycles: The Culture Palace | 2-12-96 |
| Wourinen, Charles | Galliard* | 9-27-87 |
| Yannay, Yehuda | Exit Music at Century’s End* | 1-29-96 |
| Ziolek, Eric | Lion Mountain: Herbs and Towers | 3-13-94 |
| Zonn, Paul | Tennessee Secrets* | 2-17-97 |
