Anna Weesner, the Robert Weiss Professor of Music and the undergraduate chair of music in the School of Arts & Sciences, has received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation. 

Each year, the Fromm Music Foundation accepts applications for commissions of new music, and awards commissions to fourteen American composers. The Fromm Music Foundation commissions represent one of the ways that the foundation strives to support the creation of new musical works and bring contemporary concert music closer to the public.

Dr. Weesner’s recent output includes a set of songs called My Mother in Love, for which she wrote the music and text, originally commissioned by Cygnus Ensemble and forthcoming in a recorded studio version. Her recent chamber music includes The Eight Lost Songs of Orlando Underground, written for a clarinet quintet and commissioned and premiered by the Lark Quartet with Romie de Guise-Langlois; and Song-Shaped Absence in a Soundtracked World, commissioned by Mimi Stillman and the Dolce Suono Ensemble.