You can help us to support the creation and evolution of new chamber music by joining our Commissioning Club.

As a Commissioning Club member, you make a multi-year financial commitment and receive regular updates on the progress of each composition. You are invited to attend a rehearsal with the composer and musicians prior to its premiere performance.

The 2009 World Premiere was Christopher Theofanidis' "Summer Verses," for violin and cello which was performed on Monday, July 31 at Lakeside School, by James Ehnes and Robert deMaine.

The Club's first commissioned piece was Ronn Yedidia's Trio for Clarinet, Cello & Piano, which received its world premiere at Lakeside School on Friday, July 20, 2007. It was played by Alexander Fiterstein, Amit Peled and Alon Goldstein, with the composer in attendance.

Philippa Kiraly wrote in The Gathering Note:

"The work is really a short suite in five parts for violin and cello. It's fun, for summer, and wears its careful scholarship lightly, being beautifully constructed and varied in content with the two instruments sometimes sounding as full as a quartet of players and at others as spare and clear as a Bach fugue. The movement devoted to deMaine is one of a kind, and given that it requires not only the musician's cello but a rubber face, entire body and voice to perform with the violin as straight man, it might easily be omitted by any duo not feeling equal to this very personal task. As it was, the result was hilarious. And then the players moved straight into the last, most serious and moving section of "Verses," with moments which reached the sublime."

Join the SCMS Commissioning Club and make new music possible!
Contact Connie Cooper at (206) 283-8710 for more information.