Jessica Meyer Commissioning Consortium

Photograph of Jessica Meyer by Dario Acosta

Auburn Symphony Orchestra is honored to be working with composer and violist Jessica Meyer in the commissioning of a new work for orchestra. To fund the work’s creation, Meyer and ASO are forming a consortium of orchestras. The new piece, titled Turbulent Flames, will be approximately eight minutes in length and is meant to be a concert opening type of work. ASO will give the world premiere in the fall of 2024 and consortium partners will perform the work in the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 seasons.

ASO Music Director Wesley Schulz has previously championed several of Meyer’s works on Auburn programs including Go Big or Go Home (performed on the orchestra’s 2022 Link Up program) and Grasping for Light in April 2021. Meyer’s music explores a wide variety of styles and techniques and is known for its visceral use of colors and rhythms. Ensembles such as Roomful of Teeth and Vox Clamantis have commissioned works from Meyer and orchestras such as the Phoenix, North Carolina, Charlotte, and Vermont Symphonies have performed her music. In the fall of 2023 Meyer joined the viola faculty at the Manhattan School of Music.