The Lone Star Wind Orchestra (LSWO) is actively engaged in the support of living composers through residencies and commissions. Each season, the LSWO features composers though its Distinguished Visiting Composer Series as well as its Commissioning Project. The LSWO also supports composers through premiering new works for wind band.
Distinguished Visiting Composer Series
- 2024-25 – Quinn Mason (Youth Winds)
- 2023-24 – Julie Giroux (Youth Winds)
- 2022-23 – Frank Ticheli (Youth Winds)
- 2021-22 – John Mackey (Youth Winds)
- 2012-22 – Omar Thomas (LSWO & Youth Winds)
- 2020-21 – Concert Postponed due to COVID-19
- 2019-20 – Concert Postponed due to COVID-19
- 2018-19 – Donald Grantham (Youth Winds)
- 2017-18 – Julie Giroux (Youth Winds)
- 2016-17 – Steven Bryant (Youth Winds)
- 2015-16 – John Mackey (Youth Winds)
- 2014-15 – Frank Ticheli (Youth Winds)
- 2013-14 – William Owens (Youth Winds)
- 2011-12 – Carter Pann
- 2010-11 – Cindy McTee
- 2009-10 – Frank Ticheli
- 2008-09 – John Mackey
- 2007-08 – Donald Grantham
LSWO Commissioning Project
- 2022-23 – John Mackey, Clarinet Concerto
- 2021-22 – Katahj Copley, Bridges
- 2021-22 – John Mackey, Let Me Be Frank With You
- 2020-21 – Julie Giroux, River Shannon
- 2019-20 – John Mackey, Places we can no longer go
- 2014-15 – Joseph Schwantner, Concerto for Wind Ensemble
- 2013-14 – Ryan George, An Gé Fiáin (The Wild Goose)
- 2013-14 – Christopher Tucker, Cotten’s Country
- 2010-11 – Cindy McTee, Double Play
- 2007-08 – Donald Grantham, Lone Star Twister
- 2006-07 – Christopher Tucker, Fanfare Español
Composer-in-Residence
The composer-in-residence of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra is charged with coordinating seminars and masterclasses with visiting composers as well as maintaining relationships with contemporary composers – establishing new opportunities for future collaborations. The composer-in-residence fulfills at least one commission for the Lone Star Wind Orchestra in addition to performances of his or her compositions.
Premieres
• May 12, 2024 – [Youth Winds] Julie Giroux’s Eleanór, a rún
World premiere of new adaption for brass trio and wind band
• May 15, 2022 – Katahj Copleys’s Bridges
World premiere
• April 24, 2022 – Dorothy Gate’s Another World
World premiere
• April 24, 2022 – Anna Segal’s Pandora
World premiere
• March 24, 2019 – Luis Serrano Alarcón’s Pas de Quatre
World premiere
• March 24, 2019 – Óscar Navarro’s The Musketeers
North American premiere
• January 26, 2014 – Ryan George’s An Gé Fiáin (The Wild Goose)
World Premiere
• October 6, 2013 – Christopher Tucker’s Cotten’s Country
World Premiere
• March 4, 2013 – [Youth Winds] Eric Whitacre’s Sleep, My Child
Consortium Premiere
• January 29, 2012 – José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana’s Yakka, Luis Serrano Alarcón’s Tramonto, Francisco Arturo Bort Ramón’s Llegendes, and Francisco José Martínez Gallego’s La Concepción 1910
US Premieres
• November 21, 2010 – Cindy McTee’s Double Play
World Premiere
• November 21, 2010 – [Youth Winds] Donald Grantham’s Spangled Heavens (complete)
World Premiere
• September 26, 2010 – Michael Sweeney’s trans. of Bernstein’s Symphonic Suite from “On the Waterfront”
Southwestern Premiere
• July 26, 2010 – Frank Ticheli’s San Antonio Dances
World Premiere
• July 28, 2008 – Christopher Tucker’s Gabrieli’s Trumpet
World Premiere
• May 20, 2008 – Donald Grantham’s Lone Star Twister
World Premiere
• October 9, 2007 – Frank Ticheli’s Wild Nights!
North Texas Premiere
• October 9, 2007 – Joseph Willcox Jenkins’ Concerto Breve “The Wondrous Valley”
Southwestern Premiere
• March 6, 2007 – Steven Bryant’s Radiant Joy
Southwestern Premiere
• December 19, 2006 – Joseph Spaniola’s Is there a Santa Claus?
World Premiere
• September 27, 2006 – Christopher Tucker’s Fanfare Español
World Premiere