The Ensemble Donald Berman keyboards Anne Black viola/violin Yu-Hui Chang composer, co-artistic director Michael Curry cello Ian Greitzer clarinets Diane Heffner clarinets/sax Sue-Ellen Hershman- Tcherepnin flutes, co-artistic director Katherine V. Matasy clarinets/sax/accordion Robert Schulz percussion Cyrus Stevens violin Scott Wheeler conductor   Scott Wheeler, conductor   Scott Wheeler's works have been commissioned and performed by the orchestras of Minnesota, Houston, Toledo and Indianapolis, as well as by New York City Opera, soprano Renée Fleming, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the John Oliver Chorale, the New England Composers Orchestra, the Chicago Contemporary Players, Parnassus, the Newport Music Festival and Dinosaur Annex. His opera Democracy has been commissioned by Placido Domingo for the Young Artist Program of the Washington Opera, with the premiere projected for the 2004-05 season. The New England String Ensemble and the Koussevitsky Foundation have commissioned a string symphony to be premiered in April 2004. Wheeler's awards and commissions include the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fromm Foundation, Tanglewood, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artist Foundation, Yaddo, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the MacDowell Colony, as well as the Stoeger Prize for excellence in chamber music from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. His work can be heard on GM Recordings, Northeastern Records, Palexa and Koch International. Scott Wheeler has taught at New England Conservatory, Brandeis University, and Emerson College in Boston, where he is Artistic Director of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble. As a conductor, Wheeler has premiered hundreds of new works, as well as the Boston premieres of works by Poul Ruders, Scott Lindroth, Judith Weir, Peter Maxwell Davies, Philip Grange and many others. Wheeler studied at Amherst College, New England Conservatory and Brandeis University. His teachers include Virgil Thomson, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Arthur Berger and Lewis Spratlan. Click here to visit Scott Wheeler's website.