SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Commissions and First Performances by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony
Work TBA by Giya Kancheli; Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT), conductor; San Francisco Symphony (SFS) commission; world premiere 5-15-02
Songs on text of Emily Dickinson by Michael Tilson Thomas; MTT, conductor; world premiere 2-27-02
Pedal Tones by Steve Mackey; MTT, conductor; San Francisco Symphony commission; world premiere 2-22-02
Ice Field by Henry Brant; MTT, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 12-12-01
Gay Life by David Del Tredici; MTT, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 5-3-01
El Niño by John Adams; Kent Nagano, conductor; SFS co-commission; U.S. premiere 1-11-01
Three songs to Poems by Walt Whitman by Michael Tilson Thomas; MTT, conductor; world premiere 9-3-99
Clarissa Sequence by Robin Holloway; MTT, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 12-9-98
A Reel of Seven Fishermen by Peter Maxwell Davies; Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 5-7-98
Celestial Navigation by Marti Epstein; Alasdair Neale, conductor; world premiere 4-15-98
Brick Symphony by Michael Torke; Alasdair Neale, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 1-14-98
The Red Violin by John Corigliano; Robert Spano, conductor; co-commission by SFS; world premiere 11-26-97
Celestina by Joaquín Nin-Culmell; MTT, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 9-4-97
Agnegram by Michael Tilson Thomas; MTT, conductor; world premiere 5-14-98
Solus by Mark Volkert; MTT, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 10-23-96 Brazen by William Kraft; MTT, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 9-11-96
Lost & Found by Steven Mackey; MTT, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 9-5-96
Concrete Jungle by Michael Daugherty; MTT, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 6-20-96
Atlantis by Henry Cowell; MTT, conductor; world premiere 6-20-96
A Parade for MTT by Lou Harrison; MTT, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 9-7-95