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Japanese composer Dai Fujikura's "Samarasa" was composed in 2010 with a new version in 2014. As written on his website, Fujikura states: "'Samarasa' is a rough translation for 'mind at rest' in Sanskrit. I composed this piece for the violinist…

Japanese composer Dai Fujikura wrote "Poyopoyo" on commission from Nobuaki Fukukawa, to whom the composition is also dedicated. This one movement work was premiered in Nagoya, October 2012. A highly challenging work for unaccompanied horn. On his…

Japanese composer Akira Nishimura composed "Whirl Dance" for solo viola.

Israeli-born American composer Shulamit Ran composed "Perfect Storm" for viola in 2010. Notes on the publisher's website state: "Melia Watras, a foremost performing violist and professor of viola, has commissioned a good number of composers for new…

Indian American composer Sophia J. Bass composed "Alaap in Raag Des" for solo bass. The work was commissioned by Bass Players for Black Composers (BPBC) - (04/2021 to (06/2021)​.

Indian American composer Reena Esmail works between the worlds of Indian and Western classical music, and brings communities together through the creation of equitable musical spaces. As written in the program notes made available on her website:…

Haitian American composer Daniel Bernard Roumain composed "Lecolion Loops" for clarinet, bassoon, and piano.

Ghanaian composer Fred Onovwerosuoke's "Six Variations on a Pende Folk Tune" was written in the early twentieth-century for flute. The work "begins with a plaintive melody, but immediately graduate into a show piece of imageries, dances and intrigues…

Dominican composer Darwin Aquino composed "En el Mejor Momento de mi Vida" (2013) for cello. The description for the work provided on the composer's website states: "The traditional Chaconne, usually found in Baroque dance suites, can be identified…

Diné composer Raven Chacon (of Navajo Nation, Arizona, USA) composed "Quiver" by commission for Michelle Mesler in 2018. As indicated in the program notes, "Part III of solo cello works on the tracking of animals." The score, linked in the sources,…