Canadian Commissions
The ESO has a long tradition of commissioning and performing works by Canadian – and particularly Albertan – composers. On April 29, 2005 the ESO presented a highly acclaimed concert of music by five contemporary Alberta composers – Alan Gordon Bell, John Estacio, Malcolm Forsyth, Allan Gilliland and Jeffrey McCune – in Southam Hall at Ottawa's National Arts Centre as part of the Alberta Scene festival. In May 2012, the ESO performed the US premieres of music by its three Composers in Residence at Carnegie Hall's second annual Spring for Music festival.
Works commissioned by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra include:
- Louis Applebaum Concertante / Prelude / Incantation / Sinfonia / Evocations for Two Pianos and Orchestra
- Violet Archer Prelude - incantation / Sinfonia
- Alan Gordon Bell Symphonies of Hidden Fire
- Patrick Cardy Trobadores
- George Fiala Overtura Buffa
- Malcolm Forsyth Symphony No. 2 '... A Host of Nomads...' / Requiem for the Victims in a Wartorn World / Siyajabula! We Rejoice! / A Ballad of Canada
- Allan Gilliland Dreaming of the Masters II
- Stewart Grant Symphony ("Et in Terra…")
- Ronald Hannah Suite of orchestral dances: the common air that bathes the globe
- Jacques Hétu Concerto for Organ
- Yuri Laniuk Palimpsesty
- Raymond Luedeke Tales of the Netsilik
- Rod McKuen The Ballad of Distances - Symphonic Suite, Opus 40
- François Morel Neumes d'espace et reliefs
- Jeffrey McCune Aquamarine / Dance Suite / Overture Sauvage
- John McPherson Walk in Beauty
- Kelly-Marie Murphy Utterances
- Cha Ka Nin Memento Mori
- Randolph Peters WildFire
- Laurie Radford a tangle in the throat
- Manus Sasonkin Musica post prandia
- Robert Turner Shades of Autumn
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