Artists | NEW WORKS & COMMISSIONS
A living repertoire keeps being written.
Restoration is only half the work. Across 25 years, RCP has commissioned and premiered more than 20 works, helping new music enter the repertoire and giving composers a platform for what comes next.
THE RECORD
Composers connected to RCP's commissions and premieres.
- Adolphus Hailstork
- James Lee III
- Jonathan Bailey Holland
- Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
- Gary Smart
- George Walker
Among them, James Lee III's Lament.Sing.Arise, written for Kelly Hall-Tompkins and Terrence Wilson and premiered by RCP at the Library of Congress, returns on Opening Night of the Silver Jubilee.
THE SILVER JUBILEE COMMISSION | 2027
Legacy is what an institution invites into being.
Commissioned for RCP's quarter-century milestone, the Silver Jubilee Commission stands at the center of the anniversary rather than beside it. It links RCP's Jacksonville roots to a new 21st-century chamber voice, and gives the institution a new work to carry forward beyond the anniversary year.
World premiere: Saturday, February 20, 2027, Terry Concert Hall, as the culminating work of Expanding Legacy. The composer and instrumentation will be announced.
COMMISSION THE FUTURE
New music needs people who believe in it first.
Every commission begins with a conviction that a piece should exist before anyone has heard it. Patrons and partners who want to help bring new work into being can start a conversation with RCP.