Press Kit
An advocate of new music, Adsit is the founder of the National Wind Ensemble Consortium Group (NWECG) and the institute for the Advancement of Secondary and Primary Instrumental Repertoire Excellence (ASPIRE). The mission of these groups is to commission the world’s finest composers to write music for primary, secondary and professional level ensembles.
Commissions, Consortium, and Premieres
Shuying Li
Luminance
2023
Joseph Turrin
Triptych
2022
Shuying Li
The Last Hive Mind II
2020
Shuying Li
The Last Hive Mind
2019
Ted King-Smith
Between Glimpses of Blue
2017
Ryan Jesperson
Yet What is any Ocean but a Multitude of Drops
2016
Kyle Wernke
Formation
2015
Jess Turner
Heavy Weather
2012
Chen Yi
Dragon Rhyme
2010
Ken Steen
Grandfather Dreams in Circles Unfolding
2009
David Macbride
Echo Canon
2009
Stephen Gryc
Passaggi
2007
Viana Andersen
Rainforest Dreams Concerto
2004
Thomas Sleeper
Sapphire Overture
2004
Jumpei Saijo
Fantasy for Band
2002
Charles Young
Concerto for Double Bass and Wind Ensemble
2001
Susan Botti
Vespers
2023
William Bolcom
Three Miniatures
2022
Shuying Li
Kung Fu
2020
Huck Hodge
At Dawn I Chant My Own Weird Hymn
2018
Robert Carl
Death March
2017
Thomas Schuttenhelm
Promia
2016
Shuying Li
Slippery Slope
2014
Susan Botti
Terra Cruda
2011
Robert Carl
La Ville Engloutie
2009
Larry Alan Smith
From the Ground Up
2009
Jess Turner
Rumpelstilzchen
2009
Eliott Schwartz
Concertino
2007
David Macbride
Listen to the Horns
2004
Nebojsa Zivkovic
Tales from the Center of the Earth
2003
Tom Schuttenhelm
Whirl
2002
Donald Grantham
Kentucky Harmony
2001
Stephen Michael Gryc
Stone Colors
2022
Ricardo Lorenz
Caminantes
2021
Gilda Lyons
La Flor Mas Linda
2019
Andrey Stolyarov
In a Noisy World
2018
Zhou Long
Temple Bugler
2016
Michael Schelle
The End of the World
2015
Stephen Gryc
Concerto for Wind Ensemble
2013
Jennifer Higdon
Road Stories
2011
Larry Alan Smith
Fanfara
2009
Stephen Gryc
Fanfara Agitata
2009
Joe Turrin
Lullaby for Noah
2009
Robert Carl
Marfantasie
2004
Faure/Moss
Chant Funeraire
2004
Ken Steen
Twitch
2002
Ingrid Stozel
Barefoo
2002
James Mobberly
Concerto For Marimba (8 hands) and Wind Ensemble
2000