North Hills Instrumental Music
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Commission Series

The North Hills High School Bands have maintained a commission series since 1965, making it the longest-running series of its kind in the United States. The series has resulted in the creation of nearly sixty original works for the band world. Works from the series have been recorded by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra with Frederick Fennel conducting, D.C. service bands, the University of North Texas Wind Symphony, and college ensembles throughout the country. They have also been featured in the series, Teaching Music Through Performance in Band.

Commissioned Works
1965 Fantasy Mother Hubbard
1966 Sarabande 
1967 Portrait of a City of Steel
1968 Symphonic Variations
1969 Variations on a Theme of Schumann
1970 Introduction and Fantasia
1971 Antiphonale
1972 Of This Time
1973 Concertante
1974 Chronicles
1975 Rhythmic Essay
1976 Improvisations – Rhythms
1977 Prelude and Capriccio
1978 Toccata for Winds
1979 Canonic March, Opus 109
1980 Academic Variations
1980 Porgy and Bess Suite
1981 Canticle of the Creatures
1982 March for a Pageant
1983 Miniature Suite
1984 Poetic Intermezzo
1985 Syntonos
1986 The Hollow Men
1987 Jubileus
1988 Rim of the World
1989 Wind Dancer
1990 Ballet Sacra
1990 Images
1991 Fanfare, Intermezzo and Dance
1992 Chronicle
1993 Blues for Hire
1993 Rondo in Swing
1994 A Jubilant Overture
1995 Paean
1996 Mr. Toad’s Wild Adventure
1997 Perotinitis
1998 Chasm
1999 Dance of the Zephyr
2000 Here, in this place, after
2001 North Hills Overture
2002 Escapade
2003 Adagio
2004 A View of the World
2005 Blackbird 2005
2006 Kennywood’s Open
2007 Blacksburg Elegy
2008 Elegy and Scherzando
​              
In memory of Warren Mercer
2009 Variations on Watkins Ale
2010 The Dream
2010 Blues for Bob
2011 Brandenburg Concerto #2
2012 Where my heart fears to tread...
2013 Ides of March

2014 Audible Images
2015 Winter Dreams
2016 OPA!
​              In memory of Areta Kalogeras
2017 Metro Dances
​2018 Children at Play
​2019 North Hills Fantasy
2020 Through These Woods...
2021 Giortazo

​              In tribute to Areta Kalogeras
​2022 Twirling Aimlessly
​2023 Shalom
​2024 TBA
​2025 TBA

Philip Catelinet
Jerry Bilik
Don Gillis
Edward Madden
Robert Jager
Rex Mitchell
Vaclav Nelhybel
Paul Whear
Norman Dello Joio
Louis Brunelli
Arthur Frackenpohl
Andreas Makris
Alfred Reed
Joseph Willcox Jenkins
Joseph Willcox Jenkins
Daniel Reuter
Sammy Nestico
James Curnow
Rex Mitchell
Ronald Lo Presti
James Barnes
Anne McGinty
Elliot Del Borgo
John Edmondson
Frank Erickson
Jared Spears
David Holsinger
Michael Leckrone
David Gorham
Calvin Custer
Mike Tomaro
Edward Madden
Joseph Willcox Jenkins
Elliot Del Borgo
William Penn
Don Freund
David Liptak
Fred Allen
Elaine Broad
Douglas Akey
Jared Spears
David Gerard Matthews, Jr.
Fred Allen
Ralph Guzzi
Bill Purse
Greg Shearer
Gregory Pascuzzi
        
​David Gerard Matthews, Jr.
Richard Mansfield
Richard Mansfield
J. S. Bach/James Pybus
Dana Wilson
Sean O'Loughlin

Nancy Galbraith
Michael Daugherty
Julie Giroux

Travis Weller
​Timothy Mahr
​Philip Sparke
​Robert Traugh
Jack Stamp
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​Jack Frerer
​Dan Forrest
​James David
​Viet Cuong

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