Music Teachers National Association is dedicated to encouraging the creation of new works by American composers and annually assists its affiliated state associations in the generation and performance of new music through the national composer commissioning program. SCMTA, as the MTNA affiliated organization in South Carolina, annually commissions an American composer to write a new work which will premiere at its annual conference.
2020 Call for Commission Proposal
Previous Commissions
- 2020 • Seth Custer – Ever Soaring, Ever Singing
- 2019 • Leonard Mark Lewis – Elegy: In Memoriam of the Emanuel Nine
- 2018 • Michael S. Bryson – Sing Me Another: Five Folksong Miniatures
- 2017 • Daniel Musselman – Three Tales for Four Hands
- 2016 • Jon Jeffrey Grier – Security Lapses
- 2015 • Seth Custer – End Around
- 2014 • Tom Dempster – Congaree Voices for four-hand piano and pre-recorded electronic sounds
- 2013 • Ayala Asherov
- 2012 • Meira Warshauer – Ocean Calling II: From the Depths for piano duo
