This is volume 13 of the Making of a Medium series, in which the Verdehr Trio presents some of the 130 new works that it has commissioned from many of the world's most prominent composers.

Sebastian Currier teaches at Columbia University in NYC, Joan Tower from NYC lives in Hartford Conn.; William David Brohn is a renowned orchestrator and arranger for Broadway shows in NYC; Dan Welcher teaches at University of Texas at Austin; John Biggs lives in Ventura, California; Charles Hoag is professor of music at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.