Bryce Dessner - Commissions

Commissions

• "Memorial" for the 2006 New York Guitar Festival
• "An evening of music" for the Kitchen, NYC, March 2007
• "Propolis" for The Morning Line, co-composed with David Sheppard and Evan Ziporyn, 2008
• "Lincoln Shuffle" for the 21st Century Abe Project, 2009
• "Aheym" for the Kronos Quartet at Celebrate Brooklyn, 2009
• "The Long Count" for the 2009 Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival
• "O Shut Your Eyes Against the Wind" for Bang on a Can All-Stars, 2010 Ecstatic Music Festival
• "Tour Eiffel" for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, 2010
• "Tenebre" for Kronos Quartet, 2010
• "Long Winter" for cellist Zachary Miskin, 2010
• "St. Carolyn by the Sea" commissioned by ACO and Muziekcentrum Eindhoven, 2011
• "Lachrimae" commissioned by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Scottish Ensemble, and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, 2012

Each commission is linked to a larger story or inspiration. For the "Lincoln Shuffle" Dessner visited the Rosenbach Museum & Library and used historical material to inspire the set of pieces, "Long Summer", "Rose of Lincoln", "Lincoln's Dixie", "Uncle Bob Ledbetter", "Uncle Bob's Union Guitars", and "Lincoln's Triumph (A Funeral March)." In January 2012, Bryce signed to Chester Novello Publishing for his concert music.