IWBC Commissions
Part of the mission of the IWBC is to encourage and promote the creation of new music by women composers. To further this goal, the organization regularly funds commissions projects and also strives to create performance opportunities for these new works.
2019 IWBC | Tempe, AZ
PREMIERED BY
Amy Cherry, Lauren Eberhart, David Hickman, Stacy Simpson, Nancy Taylor, Ginger Turner
Monarch Brass
2017 IWBC | Glassboro, NJ
PREMIERED BY
Monarch Brass
Seraph Brass
2014 IWBC | Cincinnati, KY
PREMIERED BY
Monarch Brass
Symbiosis Duo
Ava Ordman
2012 IWBC | Kalamazoo, MI
TITLE
Languor/Anger/Clanger (brass quintet)
Ridge Runner (trumpet and percussion duo)
Origenes (brass and percussion ensemble)
PREMIERED BY
Western Michigan Brass Quintet
Karin Bliznik, trumpet; Coalescence Percussion Duo
Monarch Brass
2010 IWBC | Toronto, Canada
PREMIERED BY
Monarch Brass
Monarch Brass
Lin Foulk, horn; Deanna Swoboda, tuba’ Alex Thio, piano
2006 IWBC | Normal, IL
TITLE
Towards Light (Brass Ensemble)
A Eupher’s Dream (Euphonium Ensemble)
PREMIERED BY
Monarch Brass
Gail Robertson, euphonium; Alex Thio, piano
Laurel Ohlson, horn; Caryl Conger, piano
IWBC All-Star Euphonium Ensemble
2003 IWBC | Normal, IL
TITLE
JB Montage (Brass Ensemble)
Meetings (Tuba/Euphonium Quartet)
Motivations (Brass Band)
Impromptu and Toccata (Brass Quintet)
PREMIERED BY
Monarch Brass
Junction
Athena Brass Band
ISU Faculty Brass Quintet
2000 IWBC | Cincinnati, OH
COMPOSER
Carolyn Bremer
TITLE
The Four Winds (Brass Ensemble)
PREMIERED BY
Monarch Brass
2000 National Museum of Women in the Arts | Washington, DC
TITLE
Opposable Thumbs (Brass Quintet)
Brazen Overture (Brass Quintet)
Dialogue Continued: 5 Short Movements for Horn, Trombone, and Tuba
Impromptu and Toccata (Brass Quintet)
PREMIERED BY
Monarch Brass Quintet
Monarch Brass Quintet
Laurel Ohlson (horn), JoDee Davis (trombone), Velvet Brown (tuba)
ISU Faculty Brass Quintet
1997 IWBC | St. Louis, MO
TITLE
Scherzo di Fantasia (Euphonium, Piano)
Four for Three (4-4-3), “A Little Light Music” (Trumpet, Horn, Trombone)
PREMIERED BY
Gail Robertson, Patti Wolf
Susan Slaughter, Nancy Cochran Block, Abbie Conant
IWBC Composition Competition Winners
The IWBC, which ran a competition for composers for its inaugural conference in 1993, reinstated its Composer’s Competition with the 2017 IWBC Conference. The Competition recognizes high quality, recently composed works by women, and brings these works to the attention of our members and our followers both by performances at the Conference and by website listings. The Competition was set up to rotate among brass instruments. The 2017 competition was for horn, the 2019 competition was for tuba, and the 2022 competition will be for trombone ensemble. Future competitions will be for trumpet and for euphonium.
2019 IWBC | Tempe, AZ
COMPOSER
Amparo Edo Biol
TITLE
Foundations for Tuba and Piano
PREMIERED BY
2017 IWBC | Glassboro, NJ
COMPOSER
Alyssa Weinberg
TITLE
Night Music for Horn and Piano
PREMIERED BY
