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These works have been commissioned and/or premiered by Dr. Joan DeVee Dixon. Unless otherwise noted, all pieces are by Dr. Emma Lou Diemer.

Psalm 121 for Organ and Brass Ensemble: Four Trumpets, Three Trombones, Tuba and Two Percussionists (February 1998).
Commissioned by Alvin C. Broyles for Joan DeVee Dixon and Laurel Brass. Premiered by Joan DeVee Dixon and the Laurel Brass at the University of the Ozarks on August 9, 1998

Seasonal Psalms for Organ (May 1998)

    Psalm 80 (Advent) 
    Psalm 96 (Christmas) 
    Psalm 72 (Epiphany) 
    Psalm 51 (Ash Wednesday) 
    Psalm 22 (Palm Sunday) 
    Psalm 78 (Maundy Thursday) 
    Psalm 118 (Easter) 
    Psalm 104 (Pentecost) 
    Psalm 150 (Trinity) 
    Psalm 145 (July 4th) 
    Psalm 149 (All Saints Day) 
    Psalm 65 (Thanksgiving)

Commissioned by Alvin C. Broyles for Joan DeVee Dixon.  Six of these pieces were premiered at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC on September 20, 1998 and the others were premiered at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cumberland, Maryland on October 11, 1998.

Psalm 122 for Trombone & Organ (June 1998) Commissioned by Alvin C. Broyles for Joan DeVee Dixon and Bryan Anton. Premiered by Joan and Bryan at the Cathedral of St. Andrew in Little Rock, Arkansas on August 7, 1998.

Psalms for Trumpet & Organ (June 1998)

    Psalm 42
    Psalm 100
    Psalm 8
    Psalm 93

Commissioned by Alvin C. Broyles for Joan DeVee Dixon and John Anthony. Premiered by Joan and John at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cumberland, Maryland on October 11, 1998.

Psalm 151 (July 1998)
Commissioned by Joan DeVee Dixon Laurel Brass as a "Thank You" for Alvin C. Broyles for the Psalms II:  I Lift My Eyes to the Hills recording project. Premiered by Emma Lou Diemer at the University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, Arkansas on August 9, 1998.

Psalms for Flute & Organ (September 1998)

    Psalm 19
    Psalm 92
    Psalm 137
    Psalm 66

Commissioned by Alvin C. Broyles for Joan DeVee Dixon and Sue Lowcock Harrris. Premiered by Joan and Sue at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cumberland, Maryland on October 11, 1998.  

Psalm 1 for Trombone & Organ (November 1998)
Commissioned by Alvin C. Broyles for Joan DeVee Dixon and Bryan Anton. Premiered by Joan and Bryan at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cumberland, Maryland on December 6, 1998.  

Psalms for Percussion & Organ (November 1998)

    Psalm 3
    Psalm 44
    Psalm 46
    Psalm 67

Commissioned by Alvin C. Broyles for Joan DeVee Dixon, Michael Matteo, Scott Sexton, and Brian Tychinski.  Premiered at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cumberland, Maryland on April 11, 1999.

Variations on Rendez a Dieu (1999) 
Commissioned by Alvin C. Broyles for Joan DeVee Dixon.  Premiered at the American Cathedral in Paris, France on May 16, 1999.

Abide With Me (September 1999)
Commissioned by Joan DeVee Dixon as a birthday present for her husband, Alvin C. Broyles.  Premiered at the Red Apple Inn in Heber Springs, Arkansas on September 6, 1999.  

Psalm Interpretations for Organ (April, May and July 1999)

    Psalms 127, 128, 18, 91, 95, 108, 117, 126,
    130, 136, 97, 76, 29, 25, 138, 123, 2.

Commissioned by Alvin C. Broyles for Joan DeVee Dixon (in three sets).  Psalms 127 and 128 were premiered by organist Harold Sherman on May 23, 1999 at St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Somerset, Pennsylvania.  The remaining psalms were premiered by Joan DeVee Dixon at various locations throughout Japan, October 1999.

Improvisations for Cello and Piano (October 2000)
Commissioned by Ellen Grolman Schlegel.  Premiered by Ellen Grolman Schlegel and Joan DeVee Dixon at the Festival of Women Composers International at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, March 2001.

Piano Trio (February 2001/Clarinet version, April 2003)
Commissioned by Frostburg State University for the Chamberlain Trio (Joan DeVee Dixon, Ellen Grolman Schlegel and Laura Kobayashi).  Premiered by the Chamberlain Trio at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland on September 22, 2001.

Star Spangled Banner (2001)
Commissioned by Joan DeVee Dixon and Bryan Anton in memory of those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.  Premiered by the Laurel Trio (Joan DeVee Dixon, and Scott and Jennifer Pappal) at Penn Alps in Grantsville, Maryland on June 5, 2004.

Piano Sonata No. 3

    Serenade/Toccata (October 1996)
    Interlude (April 2000)
    Tango Fantastique (May 1999)
First and third movements commissioned by Carol Lancaster.  Interlude commissioned by Joan DeVee Dixon. Premiered by Joan DeVee Dixon at the Festival of Women Composers International at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, March 2001.  

Quartet for Trumpet, Horn, Trombone and Piano (February 2001) br> Commissioned by John and Teresa Harbaugh.  Dedicated to the Boealis Brass Trio.  Premiered by Joan DeVee Dixon, Scott Pappal, and Bryan and Lori Anton at Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland on September 22, 2001.

Trio for Piano, Horn and Violin (2001/2003)
Arrangement by Joan DeVee Dixon of the Diemer Quartet for Piano, Trumpet, Horn and Trombone.  Premiered by the Laurel Trio (Joan DeVee Dixon and Scott and Jennifer Pappal) at Penn Alps in Grantsville, Maryland on June 5, 2004. 
 

Eighteen Psalms for Piano (May 2003, Rev. March 2005)

    No. 1:  Psalm 57:8
    No. 2:  Psalm 15: 1-2
    No. 3:  Psalm 11:1
    No. 4:  Psalm 16:11 
    No. 5:  Psalm 26:8
    No. 6:  Psalm 4:7
    No. 7:  Psalm 40:3
    No. 8:  Psalm 151:2 (Qumran)
    No. 9:  Psalm 68:4a
    No.10:  Psalm 34:1
    No.11:  Psalm 62:8, Psalm 20:7, Psalm 124:8
    No.12:  Psalm 120:7, Psalm 59:2
    No.13:  Psalm 54:2, Psalm 86:7, Psalm 155:2 (Qumran)
    No.14:  Psalm 69:3
    No.15:  Psalm 55:6
    No.16:  Psalm 6:5
    No.17:  Psalm 141:2
    No.18:  Psalm 30:5, Psalm 125:2, Psalm 87:3 and Psalm 115:18.

Commissioned by Joan DeVee Dixon.  Dedicated to Mr. & Mrs. Wickliffe and Dorothy (Diemer) Hendry.  Premiered by Joan DeVee Dixon at Rising Phoenix Retreat Center in Flintstone, Maryland on April 3, 2005. 

Fantasy & Faith at Oxford (2005)
Commissioned by Dougie Fairhurst for the Concert Series at Oxford Town Hall, and the original "Father Willis" organ. Dedicated to Organist Joan DeVee Dixon. Premiered by Joan DeVee Dixon at Town Hall, Oxford on June 7, 2005.

Toccata: Homage to Buxtehude for organ (May 2007)
Carson P. Cooman, Cambridge, Massaschusetts (Op. 708)
Commissioned by Joan DeVee Dixon for her summer 2007 recital tour of the Czech Republic, in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the death of the German Baroque organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707). This work draws on the structure and textures of Buxtehude's myriad organ toccatas. In particular, it is a contemporary "take" on the rather schizophrenic, "jump-cut" form found in many North German keyboard compositions. While some of the harmonic ideas allude to Buxtehude's own music and time (although there are no quotations), they are often "disrupted" by more contemporary harmonies and modulations.

Creations Songs for solo oboe (or oboe with organ, or solo organ) (November 2008)
Commissioned by Joan DeVee Dixon and St. Michael's Lutheran Church for the American Spring Festival, Prague (2009), Kristen Cooper, oboist. Seven pieces for solo oboe, each based on one day of creation, with translation of Genesis, Ch. 1 by Jane Horn. Narration may alternate with solo pieces.
Published by St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Minnesota. Solo part may be transposed for any solo wind or brass instrument.