Commencement concert 2025

Premieres and Commissions

Season Composer  Title Notes Commissioner
2023-2024 John Raskopf ‘27 Hark! the Bark of Dear Old Dan Fenno Heath Award Winner  
  Jeffrey Douma The Increasing Light Composed for the 163rd Yale Glee Club  
  Shruthi Rajasekar Lingua Tonga   Yale Glee Club
  Ismael Huerta Marin Ten piedad de nosotros 2023 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
2022-23  Ayanna Woods ‘15 Archive Alive   Yale Glee Club
  Karen Siegel ‘02 Despertar   Yale Glee Club, West Village Chorale, Peninsula Women’s Chorus, and Consonare Choral Community
  Joel Thompson DMA‘26 A Prayer for Deliverance Live premiere with Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble and Morse Chorale  
  Corinne Klein to be one with each other 2022 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
  Hilary Purrington MM‘17 Words for Departure East coast premiere with Yale Symphony Orchestra  
2021-22 Arianne Abela MM’10 and Ruthie Prilliman ‘16 Because You Sang   Yale Glee Club
  Derrick Skye Glimpse Elation (Anthems of a Crowd)    Yale Glee Club for Project XIV
  Shruthi Rajasekar A Heart in Port Full premiere  
  Julia Wolfe Letter from Abigail   Commissioned for the retirement of Prof. Marguerite Brooks, with Yale Camerata
  Joel Thompson DMA‘26 Meditation   Yale Glee Club for Project XIV
  Arianne Abela MM‘10 and Ruthie Prilliman ‘16 Now We Can Begin   Yale Glee Club and Classical Movements, Inc.
  Ayanna Woods ‘15 Ode to Passersby   Yale Glee Club for Project XIV
  Angelica Negron Paradise   Yale Glee Club
  Udi Perlman DMA‘26 Psalm 86   Yale Glee Club Chamber Singers
  Isaac Lovdahl Though the great Waters sleep 2021 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
2020-21 Joel Thompson DMA‘26 A Prayer for Deliverance, Virtual premiere, Composed for the Yale Glee Club, Morse Chorale, and Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble  
  Tim Keeler Songs of Home Virtual premiere  Yale, Harvard, and Princeton Glee Clubs
2019-20 Hilary Purrington MM‘17 Beyond the daily mist of our minds   Yale Glee Club
  Caroline Shaw Music in Common Time Premiere of full orchestral version, performed with Yale Symphony  
  Jocelyn Hagen The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci East coast premiere  
  Shaun Radgowski ‘20 Three Hundred Years 2018 Fenno Heath Award Winner  
  Karen Siegel ‘02 To Be Free 2018 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
2017-18 Charlie Romano ‘19 Yale Forever Lives 2017 Fenno Heath Award Winner  
  Julian David Bryson Parable of Choices 2017 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
  Rodrigo Cadet Verde embeleso de la vida humana   Yale Glee Club
2016-17 Bongani Magatyana Halala Africa   Yale Glee Club
  Ēriks Ešenvalds She Walks in Beauty   Yale Glee Club
  Jane Sheldon Testimony I: Ann Wood 2016 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
  Timothy Lind ’18 Yale is November 2016 Fenno Heath Award Winner  
  Martin Sedek Ah! Sunflower 2015 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
  Kathleen Allan,  MM’14 Softly Falls the Silver Rain   Yale Glee Club
  Dan Rubins ’16 Where Yale Resides 2015 Fenno Heath Award Winner  
2014-15 Jennifer Higdon Telegram   Yale Glee Club
  Dale Trumbore A Valentine for Hands  2014 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
  Scarlett Tong Zuo The World Meets Here 2014 Fenno Heath Award Winner  
2013-14  Conrad Winslow Love (After Rouchfoucauld) 2013 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
  Timothy Laciano Lux 2013 Fenno Heath Award Winner  
  Jeffrey Douma Who is Wise? Composed for the Inauguration of Prof. Peter Salovey as the 23rd President of Yale University  
  Theodore Morrison The Wild Swans at Coole   Yale Glee Club
2012-2013 Stephen Feigenbaum Home   Yale Glee Club
  Dan Schlosberg Letter   Yale Glee Club and Yale China Association
  Ingram Marshall A New Haven Psalter   Yale Glee Club and Yale Concert Band
  Dominick DiOrio Ode to Purcell 2012 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
  Leah Latterner The Open Road 2012 Fenno Heath Award Winner  
  Bright Sheng A Porter’s Song   Yale Glee Club
   Kathryn Alexander Reveries   Yale Glee Club
2011-2012 Kala Pierson Carry the Spark  2011 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
  Joseph Gregorio Exsultate Deo 2010 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
2010-2011 Lewis Spratlan City Song Composed for the 150th Yale Glee Club and 150th Anniversary Alumni Chorus  
  Ted Hearne Partition Composed for the 150th Yale Glee Club and the Yale Symphony Orchestra  
  Jeffrey Douma Raise Your Voices Here Composed for the 150th Yale Glee Club  
   Stephen Feigenbaum To Yale Alone Winner, 2010 Fenno Heath Award  
2009-2010   Ryan Harper into the strenuous briefness,   Yale Glee Club
  Aaron Jay Kernis Symphony of Meditations East coast premiere  
  Eric Banks ‘90 Voices   Yale Glee Club
  Michael Gilbertson Weep You No More 2009 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
2008-2009 Cristian Grases Amanecer 2008 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
 

Bram Wayman ‘09

Through Eden 2008 Fenno Heath Award Winner  
  Ned Rorem Two Shakespeare Poems   Yale Glee Club
2007-2008 Robert Vuichard Zephyr Rounds 2007 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
  Jan Sandström Dona Nobis Pacem   Yale Glee Club
  Lee Case Klippel ‘09 Lux et Veritas 2007 Fenno Heath Award Winner  
2006-2007  Jenni Brandon The Dark Hills    
  Andrew Ly ‘07 Though We Are Naught 2006 Fenno Heath Award Winner  
  Caroline Mallonee Wind Songs 2006 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
2005-2006 Jocelyn Hagen Laus Trinitati 2006 Emerging Composers Competition Winner  
  Zachary Sandler ‘08 A Modern Toast to Yale 2005 Fenno Heath Award Winner  
  James MacMillan Nemo Te Condemnavit   Yale Glee Club
2004-2005 Dominick Argento Dover Beach Revisited   Yale Glee Club
  Lee Hoiby Song of Songs   Yale Institute for Sacred Music