Premieres and Commissions
Throughout its 40+ years New Amsterdam Singers has been acclaimed for its imaginative programming. Our repertoire spans seven centuries, and we have a continuining committment to commissioning and performing new choral works.
| New Amsterdam Singers Commissions — World Premieres |
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| Paul Alan Levi |
Dateless Calendar |
2011 |
| Ronald Perera |
Why I Wake Early |
2008 |
| Paul Alan Levi |
Acts of Love |
2002 |
| Ronald Perera |
The Golden Door |
1999 |
| Behzad Ranjbaran |
Open Secret |
1999 |
| Paul Alan Levi |
Journeys & Secrets |
1994 |
| Thomas Beveridge |
General William Booth |
1987 |
| Francis Heilbut |
Caliban's Song |
1974 |
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| World Premieres |
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| Elizabeth Lim |
Tempest |
2013 |
| Alexander Dmitriev |
Two Songs |
2005 |
| Alexander Dmitriev |
The Ancient Mariner |
2004 |
| Katherine Hoover |
Echo |
2003 |
| Alla Borzova |
The Ballad of Barnaby |
2002 |
| Jacob Avshalomov |
His Fluid Aria |
2001 |
| Charles Fussell |
Mists |
1998 |
| Dennis Riley |
Chansons Funèbres |
1998 |
| Paul Alan Levi |
In the Beginning |
1998 |
| Jack Gallagher |
To One Who Died |
1986 |
| Hale Smith |
Two Kids |
1972 |
| Vally Weigl |
A Shelter for All |
1970 |
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| American Premieres |
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| Einojuhani Rautavaara |
Unsere Liebe |
2013 |
| Matthew Harris |
Three Plums |
2013 |
| Richard Rodney Bennett |
I Saw Three Ships |
2008 |
| Richard Rodney Bennett |
Nonsense |
2008 |
| Eleanor Daley |
Missa Brevis |
2002 |
| Geoffrey Burgon |
Sleep |
1996 |
| Petr Eben |
Bitter Earth |
1992 |
| Daniel Catan |
Cantata |
1987 |
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| New York and NYC Premieres |
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| Matthew Harris |
Fantasy on La Bamba |
2013 |
| Ronald Perera |
The Star in the Pail |
2013 |
| Alex Weiser |
Travellers |
2013 |
| Sheena Phillips |
Two Carols |
2012 |
| Judith Shatin |
The God of Glory |
2012 |
| Steven Stucky |
Skylarks |
2012 |
| Stephen Sametz |
Niño de Rosas |
2011 |
| Kitty Brazelton |
O Joy! |
2011 |
| Clare Maclean |
Leise rieselt der Schnee |
2010 |
| Kirke Mechem |
Suite for Chorus |
2010 |
| Ronald Perera |
earthsongs |
2010 |
| Kirke Mechem |
The World is Too Much With Us |
2009 |
| Rihards Dubra |
Rorando Coeli |
2009 |
| Abbie Betinis |
Cedit, Hyems |
2009 |
| Michael Dellaira |
The Masters at the Movies |
2008 |
| Matthew Harris |
Innocence and Experience |
2008 |
| Kirke Mechem |
Peace Motets |
2007 |
| Luna Pearl Woolf |
Après moi, le déluge |
2007 |
| David Brunner |
I Am in Need of Music |
2007 |
| Paul Crabtree |
Four Folk Songs |
2007 |
| Howard Skempton |
The Flight of Song |
2007 |
| Richard Wilson |
In Schrafft's |
2007 |
| Ruth Watson Henderson |
Make Me a World |
2007 |
| Kirke Mechem |
American Trio |
2005 |
| Ronald Perera |
Three Love Lyrics |
2005 |
| Daniel Pinkham |
Christmas Jubilations |
2004 |
| Kirke Mechem |
Missa Brevis |
2004 |
| Adolphus Hailstork |
Seven Songs of the Rubaiyat |
2003 |
| Adolphus Hailstork |
The God of Glory Thunders |
2002 |
| Judith Shatin |
Songs of War and Peace |
2002 |
| Kirke Mechem |
Winging Wildly |
2001 |
| Paul Alan Levi |
Unpoem |
2000 |
| Matthew Harris |
Shakespeare Songs, Book IV |
1998 |
| Charles Fussell |
Specimen Days |
1998 |
| William Hawley |
Six Madrigals on Texts by Torquato Tasso |
1997 |
| Petr Eben |
Zauberspruch, den Liebsten zu beschwören |
1996 |
| Daniel Pinkham |
Advent Cantata |
1995 |
| Marga Richter |
Into My Heart |
1995 |
| Ronald Perera |
The Outermost House |
1994 |
| Matthew Harris |
Shakespeare Songs, Book III |
1993 |
| Ronald Perera |
Earth Songs |
1993 |
| Petr Eben |
Cantico delle Creature |
1991 |
| Petr Eben |
Salve Regina |
1991 |
| Daniel Pinkham |
The Saints Preserve Us! |
1991 |
| Paul Siskind |
On Aging |
1989 |
| Thomas Beveridge |
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun |
1987 |
| Tomas Svoboda |
Chorale Without Words |
1986 |
| Edwin Fissinger |
Lux Aeterna |
1984 |
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