| World-Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commission Fund, Inc. is a non-profit corporation that chooses composers, and presents world-premieres of the same work by multiple performers in different locations. WWCPCF commissioned works do not receive just one premiere in one location, but receive up to one-hundred premieres within the first year in different locations world-wide. World Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund, as an organization, empowers solo performers, chamber musicians and large ensembles, and all on every level from community, college or professional levels, with the ability to commission works without massive fund-raising efforts by the individual or the organization. Begun in 1992 by Kenneth Radnofsky, WWCPCF has commissioned composers in all stages of their career from established to emerging. Commissioned composers include John Harbison, Chris Theofanidis, Larry Bell, Frank Ticheli, Yehudi Wyner, Michael Horvit, Gunther Schuller, Jakov Jakoulov, Michael Colgrass, Shih-Hui Chen, John McDonald, Howard Frazin, Elliott Schwartz and Halim El-Dabh. This history of World Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund, Inc. serves as a guide to musicians and composers who are or who want to be involved in the commissioning process. |
