Past Commissioned Composers

• Orchestra and Chorale
  • Vernon Whaley
    
  • Commissioned for the Tennessee Bicentennial Celebration
    Cedarville College and President, Integra Music Group
    Tennessee Morning

1990

• Orchestra
  • Paul Martin Zonn
    University of Illinois
    Dawn River

1989

• Orchestra
  • Jordan Tang
    Jackson and Paducah Symphony Orchestras
    Preludes for Orchestra (1989)

1988

• Orchestra
  • Gilbert Carp
    University of Tennessee-Martin
    Serenade for Orchestra
• Wind Ensemble
  • Robert Jager
    Tennessee Technological University Old Hickory Suite
• Chorale
  • James Pethel
    Carson-Newman College
    'Set of Four Poems" by Robert Louis Stevenson

1987

• Orchestra
  • L. Thom Hutcheson
    MTSU
    "We, the People..." for Orchestra, Mixed Choir, and Narrator
• Wind Ensemble
  • Jeffrey Wood
    Austin Peay State University
    Symphonic Fantasy

1986

• Orchestra
  • Marvin Lamb
    Tennessee Technological University
    "Amazin" for Orchestra and Chorus
• Wind Ensemble
  • Don Freund Memphis State University
    Jug Blues and Fat Pickings

1985

• Orchestra
  • Kenneth Schermerhorn
    Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Overture "Celebration! A Tennessee Quilting Party"