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Quartet ; Red Shoes (for the S.M.C.Q. ); Chiaroscuro ; Album for Piano (published by Frederick Harris Co.) ; Sonata for Cello and Piano; the Jaya Overture (for the N.A.C.O.) and Fanfare for the New Millennium, among others. Gellman's Piano Quartet (commissioned by Radio Canada) received its world premiere on 3 April 2004 in Montreal, performed by Musica Camerata. His Viola Concerto received its world premiere on 29 January 2007 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. "Musings" for Piano Trio was premiered by the Gryphon Trio at The Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, summer 2009.
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Composed with the aid of funding from both the Canada
Council and the Ontario Arts Council, this ambitious work in five movements features many lyrical episodes framing a driving, energy-raising Scherzo culminating in an improvisation from the soloists. It is dedicated "to all beings in the aspiration for World Peace". Universe Symphony brought further international recognition with Steven Gellman being named Canadian Composer of the Year in 1987.
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as soloists with the orchestra under conductor Andrew Davis. A performance later that year at Expo 86 in
Vancouver, featured the Vancouver Symphony. Further performances followed, at the Festival de Lanaudiere with the Orchestre Metropolitan de Montreal and in Ottawa with the Ottawa Symphony.
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Government to compose a work for the Festival de Besançon, France, in honour of Oliver Messiaen's 70th Birthday. The result, Deux Tapisseries for 15 players, was given its premiere on 11 September 1978, in Besançon by the Ars Nova Ensemble
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