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Volti (pictured) premiered Pamela Z’s Ink in late 2022 as part of its 44th season. The work is a multimedia piece built from recordings of the singers’ spoken voices, electronic sound, and video projections, interwoven with live singing and gestures.

The Unity Church-Unitarian’s Unity Singers from Saint Paul, Minnesota, premiered Before Prayer by Carol Barnett with text by Brian Newhouse on April 2. Chorus America commissioned the work to honor Newhouse and his tenure as board chair.

The Crossing premiered Self-Portraits 1964, Unfinished by Martin Bresnick on March 24. The work, co-commissioned with PRISM

Quartet, is a self-portrait/autobiographical work that draws on the words of iconic authors of the last 150 years and captures a formative moment in Bresnick’s life.

The Pacific Chorale from Orange County, California concluded its season with the world premiere of the orchestral version of composer Florence Price’s Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight. The long-lost manuscript by Price was recovered from an abandoned house in Illinois in 2009 and is thought to have been completed between 1914 and 1949.

Seattle Pro Musica presented the world premiere of Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s The Glimmer on March 25. The new work, commissioned by Seattle Pro Musica, pulls from the poem “The Glimmer” by Washington state poet laureate and citizen of the Lummi Nation, Rena Priest. Tate’s piece is the last in Seattle Pro Musica’s New American Composers series which celebrated the organization’s 50th anniversary.