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Performer
CONDUCTORS
| Daniel Barenboim | Chicago Symphony & Civic Orchestra of Chicago |
| Henry Bloch | Haddonfield Symphony |
| David Briskin | National Ballet of Canada |
| Huifang Chen | Greater Miami Youth Symphony |
| Tong Chen | New Jersey Symphony |
| James Conlon | Ravinia Music Festival & Los Angeles Opera |
| Patrick Gardner | Riverside Choral Society |
| Alan Gilbert | New York Philharmonic |
| Giancarlo Gueremo | Nashville Symphony |
| Kynan Johns | Rutgers University Orchestras |
| Vaktang Jordania | Vaktang Jordania International Conducting Competition |
| Shinik Hahm | KBS Orchestra & Yale Symphony Orchestra |
| Irwin Hoffman | Vancouver Symphony & Florida Orchestra |
| Hugh Keelan | Erie Philharmonic & Northeastern Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Jun Kim | Washington Chamber Orchestra |
| Ken Lam | Charleston Symphony & Illinois Symphony |
| Robert Lehrbaumer | Vienna International Orchestra |
| Anton Nanut | Slovenia Symphony & Ljubljana Academy of Music |
| Anne Manson | Kansas City Symphony |
| Constantine Orbelian | New York City Opera & Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra |
| James Ogle | Boise Philharmonic |
| David Robertson | St. Louis Symphony |
| Stanislaw Skrowaczewski | Minnesota Orchestra |
| William Smith | Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Michel Torke | Award-winning Composer |
| Xian Zhang | New Jersey Symphony |
| Gerhardt Zimmerman | North Carolina Symphony |
*Posts held at the time of collaboration
COMPOSERS
America/Beautiful collaborations with 76 composers to date (and the list is growing!)
- World Premiere performances (in-person concerts and live stream) since 2021 and currently on going
- World Premiere recordings to be released starting 2025
| Samuel Adler (b. 1928) | A Celebration of Our Beautiful Nation |
| Bruce Adolphe (b. 1955) | A Contemplation |
| Leila Adu-Gilmore | United Underdog |
| Timo Andres (b. 1985) | American Coda |
| Andrew Bambridge (b. 1996) | Oh Beautiful |
| Jonathan Berger (b. 1954) | but wait a minute… |
| Victoria Bond (b. 1945) | Sea to Shining Sea |
| Peter Boyer (b. 1970) | Still Beautiful |
| Kenji Bunch (b. 1973) | Beauty For All (Or For None At All) |
| Theo Chandler (b. 1992) | Undimmed By Tears |
| Anthony Cheung (b. 1982) | no longer stain |
| Charles Coleman (b. 1968) | To be Beautiful |
| Stewart Copeland (b. 1952) | America...quite Beautiful... |
| Viet Cuong (b. 1990) | America the Beautiful: Echo Chamber |
| Sebastian Currier (b. 1959) | 23 Variations on America |
| Richard Danielpour (b. 1956) | Fantasy Variation (The Visible Enemy) |
| Tyson Davis (b. 2000) | American Tableau (Tableau XI for piano) |
| Justin Dello Joio (b. 1954) | Playing with Fire |
| Donnacha Dennehy (b. 1970) | New Jersey |
| Jed Distler (b. 1956) | Ameritango |
| Avner Dorman (b. 1975) | American Toccata |
| Reena Esmail (b. 1983) | America/Desh |
| Alan Fletcher (b. 1956) | Liberty in Law |
| Michael Gandolfi (b. 1956) | Of Liberating Strife |
| Michael Gilbertson (b. 1987) | Grace |
| John Harbison (b. 1938) | Getting the Upper Hand on America |
| Stephen Hartke (b. 1952) | O Genus Infelix Humanum |
| Jake Heggie (b. 1961) | Undiscovered |
| Fred Hersch (b. 1955) | Four Views of America |
| Jonathan Bailey Holland (b. 1974) | No Man’s Land |
| Huang Ruo (b. 1976) | Meditation |
| Vijay Iyer (b. 1971) | Crown Thy Good |
| Pierre Jalbert (b. 1967) | Endeavor |
| Kristjan Järvi (b. 1972) | Look up America |
| Aaron Jay Kernis (b. 1960) | Epilogue: End of the Dream |
| JP Jofre (b. 1983) | Air of America |
| Texu Kim (b. 1980) | America the Dream & America the Polarized |
| Jiyoung Ko (b. 1982) | My America |
| Libby Larsen (b. 1950) | Amber |
| Hannah Lash (b. 1981) | Passage |
| George Lewis (b. 1952) | America, the changing same |
| Lei Liang (b. 1972) | America the Beautiful... devastatingly quiet... |
| David Serkin Ludwig (b. 1972) | Qaddiš |
| Miya Masaoka (b. 1958) | Praying for a Sign |
| Jessica Meyer (b. 1974) | Halcyon Skies |
| Patricio Molina (b. 1993) | 'Amrika |
| JePaul Moravec (b. 1957) | America, the Work in Progress |
| Nico Muhly (b. 1981) | Refine |
| John Musto (b. 1954) | Habanera |
| Qasim Naqvi (b. 1977) | America The |
| Daniel Newman-Lessler (b. 1990) | Kintsugi |
| Scott Ordway (b. 1984) | Toccata in Miniature |
| Paola Prestini (b. 1975) | through eyes that see quite clearly... |
| Dave Ragland (b. 1978) | A Most Glorious Grace |
| Shulamit Ran (b. 1949) | America Summer 2020 [the Beautiful] |
| Gity Razaz (b. 1986) | Beauty of America |
| Gyan Riley (b. 1977) | Endure |
| Terry Riley (b. 1935) | Crown of Brotherhood |
| Daniel Bernard Roumain (b. 1971) | america, NEVER beautiful |
| Greg Sandow (b. 1943) | America Slow Dance & 12-Tone America |
| David Sanford (b. 1963) | Three Places in America (less than a mile from each other) |
| Paul Schoenfeld (b. 1947) | Aramaic Fuel Tube |
| Jeff Scott (b. 1967) | Purple Mountains |
| Juri Seo (b. 1981) | America the Beautiful - “sotto voce” |
| Robert Sirota (b. 1949) | Two Variations: …alabaster cities… …God mend thine every flaw… |
| Derrick Skye (b. 1982) | Woven, Gesture, Flow |
| Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964) | FUSION |
| Christopher Trapani (b. 1980) | Thine Every Flow |
| Liliya Ugay (b. 1990) | The Beautiful |
| Melinda Wagner (b. 1957) | Swinging in My Yard: an American reverie |
| Wang Jie (b. 1980) | Under the Same Flag |
| Trevor Weston (b. 1967) | A Fantasy on America |
| Pamela Z (b. 1956) | America America America America America |
| Judith Lang Zaimont (b. 1945) | in darkness veiled |
| Patrick Zimmerli (b. 1968) | Melting! |
| Samuel Zyman (b. 1956) | America in Latin Fervor |
| Robert Livingston Aldridge: | Fourteen Waltzes (World Premiere) & Concerto No. 1 (New York Premiere, Allice Tully Hall) |
| Jonathan Berger: | Il Beccafico (World Premiere, Carnegie Hall) |
| William Bolcom: | Cape & Islands Music Festival Residency |
| Gerald Chenoweth: | Prelude & Ashes to Ashes (World Premiere, Carnegie Hall) |
| Richard Danielpour: | 60th Birthday Celebration |
| Tristan Keuris | Piano Trio (U.S. Premiere, Juilliard Theatre) |
| Shinuh Lee: | Studio 2120 Concerts (Seoul National University) |
| Vittorio Montalti: | Solo (World Premiere, Carnegie Hall) |
| Eun Hye Park: | Sonata for Two Pianos (World Premiere, Steinway Hall) |
| Paul Reller: | Sonata for Two Pianos (World Premiere, Steinway Hall) |
| Paul Reale: | Music for Two Pianos and Four Hands (World Premiere Recording on MSR Classics) |
| Paul Schonfield: | Four Parables for Piano and Orchestra (Asia Premiere) |
| Michael Torke: | Aspen Contemporary Ensemble |
PIANISTS
| Leif Ove Andsnes | International Performing Artist |
| Edward Auer | Indiana University |
| Michael Bulychev-Okser | Alion Baltic Festival |
| Matti Hirvonen | Norwegian Academy |
| Warren Jones | Manhattan School of Music |
| Paavali Jumpannen | Arts Management Group |
| Robert Lehrbaumer | Friedrich Gulda School of Music Wien |
| Alexei Lubimov | Moscow Conservatory |
| Drew Petersen | Opus 3 Artists |
| Antonio Pompa-Baldi | Cleveland Institute of Music |
| Boris Slutsky | Peabody Institute |
| Susan Starr | Rutgers University |
| Vladimir Valjarevic | Mannes School of Music & Rutgers University |
VIOLINISTS
| Corey Cerovcek | International Performing Artist |
| David Chan | Concertmaster, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra |
| Robert Chen | Concertmaster, Chicago Symphony |
| Anna Gebert | Concertmaster, Trondheim Symphony, Cologne Philharmonic |
| Juliet Kang | First Associate Concertmaster, Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Lisa Kim | Associate 2nd Principal, New York Philharmonic |
| David Kim | Concertmaster, Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Yoon Kwon | Metropolitan Opera Orchestra |
| Kyung Sun Lee | Seoul National University |
| Cho-Liang Lin | International Performing Artist, Rice University |
| Robert McDuffie | International Performing Artist, McDuffie Center for Strings |
| Todd Phillips | Orion String Quartet |
| Phillip Quint | International Performing Artist |
| Julian Rachlin | International Performing Artist |
| Benjamin Schmid | International Performing Artist, Winner, Carl Flesh Competition |
| Hagai Shaham | Tel Aviv University |
| Josef Spacek | Concertmaster, Czech Philharmonic |
| Sharon Staples | Associate Concertmaster, New York Philharmonic |
| Arnold Steinhardt | Guarneri String Quartet |
| Scott St. John | St. Lawrence String Quartet |
| Axel Strauss | Winner, Naumburg Competition |
| Akiko Suwanai | International Performing Artist, Winner, Tchaikovsky Competition |
| Masuko Ushioda | New England Conservatory |
| Peter Winograd | American String Quartet |
| Erik Wyrick | Concertmaster, NJ Symphony |
| Nikolai Znaider | InternationaI Performing Artist |
CME Artists & Young Artists:
Dae Hyung Ahn
Carl Bolleia
Euntaek Kim
Enriqueta Somarriba
Jiayan Sun
Reed Tetzloff
Eric Zuber
VIOLISTS
| CJ Chang | Principal, Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Paul Coletti | Colburn School |
| Pierre Lenert | Principal, Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris |
| Vladimir Mendelssohn | Kuhmo International Festival; Faculty, Paris Conservatoire |
| Milan Milisavljevic | Associate Principal, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra |
| Paul Neubauer | Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society |
| Daniel Panner | Principal, New York City Opera |
CME Young Artists:
Bethany Hargreaves
Tanner Menees
Rosemary Nelis
CELLISTS
| Darrett Atkins | The Juilliard School |
| Nayoung Baek | New Jersey Symphony |
| Zuill Bailey | Colbert Artists Management |
| Ilmari Hopkins | Stavanger Symphony |
| John Koen | Assistant Principal, Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Mark Kosower | Principal, Cleveland Orchestra |
| Lawrence Lesser | New England Conservatory |
| Hai-Ye Ni | Principal, Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Joel Noyes | Associate Principal, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra |
| Carol Ou | New England Conservatory |
| Jean-Guihen Queyras | International Performing Artist |
| Sara San’t Ambrogio | Eroica Trio |
| Jonathan Spitz | Principal, Orpheus Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony |
| Alan Stepansky | Peabody University |
| Wendy Sutter | New York Philharmonic |
CME Artists & Young Artists:
Andrew Byun
Nan-Cheng Chen
Brannon Cho
Ari Evan
BASSISTS
| Tim Cobb | Principal, New York Philharmonic |
WOODWIND ARTISTS
| Sam Caviezel | Associate Principal Clarinet, Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Richard Deane | Associate Principal Horn, New York Philharmonic |
| Bart Feller | Principal Flute, New Jersey Symphony |
| Maureen Hurd | Clarinet, Rutgers University |
| Jeffrey Khaner | Principal Flute, Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Jan Machat | Principal Piccolo/Flute, Czech Philharmonic |
| Daniel Matsukawa | Principal Bassoon, Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Jennifer Montone | Principal Horn, Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Soo-Kyung Park | Flute, New York University |
| Richard Woodhams | Former Principal Oboe, Philadelphia Orchestra |
CME Young Artists:
Giorgio Consolati (Flute)
Amir Farsi (Flute)
Graeme Steele Johnson (Clarinet)
VOCALISTS
| Christine Abraham | San Francisco Conservatory |
| Jennifer Aylmer | ADA Artists, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Stephen Costello | Metropolitan Opera |
| Yunah Lee | New York City Opera |
| Robert White | The Juilliard School |
JAZZ ARTISTS
| Stanley Cowell | Piano |
| Fred Hersch | Piano |
| Conrad Herwig | Trombone |
| Jason Moran | Piano |
| Bill O’Connor | Piano |
ENSEMBLES
Aspen Contemporary Ensemble
Attaca String Quartet
Harlem String Quartet
Parker String Quartet
Shanghai String Quartet
ORCHESTRAS
Atlanta Symphony
Aspen Festival Orchestra
Brevard Sinfornia
Bucharest Symphony
Chicago Civic Orchestra
Daejun Philharmonic
Delaware Pops Orchestra
Fort Worth Symphony
Greater Miami Youth Symphony
Haddonfield Symphony
Juilliard Orchestra
Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
KBS Orchestra
Korean Symphony
Mexico State Symphony
New Jersey Pops Orchestra
New Jersey Symphony
New York Classical Players
New York Sinfonietta
North Carolina Symphony
Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic
Philadelphia Orchestra
Puchon Philharmonic
Rutgers Symphony Orchestra
Seoul Philharmonic
Ureck Symphony
Venezuela Symphony
Vienna International Orchestra
Washington Chamber Orchestra
Wiener Residenz Orchester
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