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Brazilian composer Marcos Balter composed "Descent from Parnassus" for solo flute. As included in the comments of Claire Chase's performance at the Art Institute of Chicago: "The Art Institute of Chicago commissioned a new work for Chase in January…

Brazilian composer Marcos Balter composed "ignis fatuus" for solo violin. The work was premiered in June 2008 and was a semifinalist at the International Violin Competition, DePaul Concert Hall in Chicago, IL. Program notes, as included on the…

Brazilian composer Marcos Balter composed "Ut" for solo viola.

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)​.

Black composer and avant-garde jazz clarinetist Alvin Batiste composed "Episodes" for clarinet and piano.

Brazilian pianist, violinist, conductor, music educator and composer, Lycia de Biase Bidard composed "Serie Retratos" for trumpet and piano in 1987. The work is dedicated to Paulo Reis.

Brazilian pianist, violinist, conductor, music educator and composer, Lycia de Biase Bidard composed "Solitude" for trumpet and piano in 1977. The work is dedicated to Henrique Cesar.

Black composer and musical director Edward Osmund Bland composed "One On One" for bassoon and clarinet. As David Schwartz recounts in his liner notes for the album Legacy: Black Composers on which the work appears, the work "display[s] a style of…

Black composer Edward Osmund Bland composed "For Bassoon" in 1979 on commission by the bassoonist Fail Hightower of New York City.

Black composer Margaret Bonds composed "The Ballad of the Brown King" in the early 1950s. A Cantata, it is one of her most frequently composed works. The Ballad was written in honor of the African king Balthazar, to text by Langston Hughes. It was…