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 ; 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 ; 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 ; 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 ; MTT, conductor; world premiere 6-20-96

A Parade for MTT by Lou Harrison; MTT, conductor; SFS commission; world premiere 9-7-95