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Janapese composer Joji Yuasa composed "Viola Locus" for viola in 1995. The work received its world premiere on 25 November 1995.

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

Black and Latino composer Michael Frazier specializes in acoustic, electronic, and electroacoustic music. As described on his website, he is invested in "exploring a kind of music that has a connection to a broader history of Black creative…

In its original form, Umoja, the Swahili word for Unity and the first principle
of the African Dispora holiday Kwanzaa, was compose a simple song for women's
choir. It embodied a sense of 'tribal unity', through the feel of a drum circle, the…

Tzigane is a high-charged, passionate journey through Eastern Europe, by way of the Romani.

Black composer Ronald Roxbury completed "Two Songs of Walt Whitman" in the final weeks of his life. As included on Bridge Records' website: "“Goodbye My Fancy” is a lover’s farewell, and is set as a flowing barcarolle. “Here the Frailest Leaves”…

Black composer Margaret Bonds composed "Troubled Water" for piano. As Joel Fan describes in the comments on recorded performance on YouTube, "The poet Maya Angelou described "Troubled Water" as one of Margaret Bonds masterpieces. Based on the…

Black composer Ulysses Kay wrote "Tromba" for the trumpet in 1983. Described in program notes as "a free flowing piece sporting a stern Nocturne where the trumpet plays muted. Spirited vernacular sluices through the finale – perky, and decidedly fun.…

Japanese composer Ichiro Nodaira composer "Transformations III" on 5 Fragments of J.S. Bach for viola.

for woodwind quintet (alto flute, english horn, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn) and drum set. Commissioned by the Radius Ensemble