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Commissions for 2004
Dances With Time for Solo Flute (with Piccolo and Alto Flute), Solo Cello, Clarinet, Bassoon, Percussion and String Orchestra.  Orchestras Mississauga and Jyvaskyla Sinfonia, commissioners, Canada Council Composer Residency Grant.  First performances:  September 22, 2004, City Theatre of Jyvaskyla, Finland, Patrick Gallois flute and conductor, Shauna Rolston cello, Jyvaskyla Sinfonia and February 5, 2005, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Louise DiTullio flute, Shauna Rolston cello, Mississauga Symphony, John Barnum conductor.

Rhapsody for Solo Clarinet, Percussion and String Orchestra.  Jerome Summers and Orchestra London commissioners, private donation.  First performance, November 2, 2004, Wolf Performance Hall, London, Jerome Summers clarinet, Orchestra London, Stephane Laforest, conductor.

Cinema for Orchestra.  Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra commissioner, as part of an Ontario Trillium Grant project.  First performance May 22, 2004, Great Hall, Hamilton Place, Hamilton, Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Dr. Glenn A. Mallory conductor.

We Are Rotary for Voices and Orchestra, text by Mark Brownell.  Orchestras Mississauga and the Rotary Club of Mississauga commissioners, funded by the Mississauga Rotary Club.  First performance, May 7, 2004, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Mississauga Symphony, John Barnum conductor.

A Festive Overture for Orchestra.  Orchestras Mississauga and the Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, commissioners, as part of an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant.  First performances, March 27,
2004, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Mississauga Symphony, John Barnum conductor and May 22, 2004, Hamilton  Place, Hamilton, Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Dr. Glenn A. Mallory conductor.

Commissions from 1999-2003
Love’s Labour, for Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Clarinet and String Quartet (2003). 
 The Talisker Players commissioner, Laidlaw Foundation Grant.
 
For the Children’s Theatre production The Storyteller’s Bag:  Overture and Music for the Star Lily,
for Two Actors, Children’s Choir, Clarinet, String Quintet and Percussion (2002-2003) Chamber Music Society of Mississauga, the Mississauga International Children’s Festival and Heritage Mississauga commissioners, grants from  Lloyd Carr Harris Foundation and Ontario Trillium Foundation. 

Four Sculpted Bagatelles, for Clarinet and String Quartet  (2002)
Sculptural Music, for Narrator, Four Sound Sculptures, Clarinet, and String Quartet  (2002)
 Chamber Music Society of Mississauga commissioner, grants from Laidlaw Foundation and the Mississauga Arts Council.

Overture to an Unscripted Movie for Orchestra  (2001)
 Toronto Sinfonietta, Niagara Symphony and the Polish Canadian Society of Music commissioners, Laidlaw Foundation Grant.

Capriccio for String Quartet or Quintet  (2000)
For the “New Music for Young Musicians” project, commissioned by the Canadian Music Centre, Ontario Region, grants from the Canada Council Millennium Arts Fund and  Ontario, the Millennium 2000.  

Partita for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (In Memory of J.S.Bach) (2000)
Toronto Sinfonietta, commissioner.

Distant Shadows, Fanfare for the Past Millennium, for Alphine Horn, Brass Ensemble and Percussion  (2000)  Toronto Sinfonietta, commissioner, City of Toronto Millennium grant.

In Memoriam Fryderyk Chopin, for Clarinet, Cello and String Orchestra,  Fantaisie-Impromptu, for Flute and String Orchestra ,  Nocturne, for Clarinet and String Orchestra  (1999)
Polish Canadian Society of Music and Toronto Sinfonietta, commissioners, grants by Laidlaw Foundation and the City of Toronto Millennium Grants Programme.

Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Pancrace Royer, (1705-1755) for String Orchestra  (1999)
Sinfonia Mississauga, commissioner. 

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