Celebration 25! (1995) by Jerry Casey won the Composers Concordance competition for composers 70 or older. It was performed at the Performing Center of St. Sava Cathedral on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. See below for more details of the performance. This article appeared in the New York Times.

Composers Concordance (Tuesday) This enterprising new-music organization presents the ensemble Circadia, a woodwind, string and piano quintet, in a program that includes works by Derek Bermel, Louis Calabro, Dan Cooper, Joseph Pehrson and Gene Pritsker. The program, called “Generations,” will also include works by the winners of two Composers Concordance competitions: one for a composer 20 or under, the other for a composer 70 or over. At 8 p.m., Performing Center of St. Sava Cathedral, 20 West 26th Street, Manhattan, (646) 522-9442; $15; $10 for students and 65+. (Kozinn)

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The Parish Choir at Kenyon College commissioned Jerry Casey to write a duet arrangement of a Kenyon song, Kokosing Farewell, for two graduating seniors, Erin Ford and Lauren McNulty. The duet premiered May 8, at 10:30 a.m., at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

The Ministers’ Chorus of the Western Pennsylvania United Methodist Conference commissioned Jerry Casey to write a composition in memory of Paul and Claire Halstead, the founders and longtime leaders of the Chorus. The Chorus premiered the work, Shine As a Light, on April 28, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. at the Cochran Memorial United Methodist Church of Dawson, Pennsylvania.

Jerry Casey’s Psalm of Praise and Hope was presented at the 2011 Tutti New Music Festival at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, on Friday, March 4, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. The performance was in Burke Hall; the performers were Belinda Andrews-Smith, soprano; Leslie Maaser, flute; and Sarah Ramsey, piano.

Autumn (poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) for SSAATB a cappella choir was premiered on November 21, 2010 at the 2010 Fall Concert of the Otterbein University Concert Choir under the direction of Gayle Walker. The Concert Choir toured China, November 29 through December 10, 2010. Autumn was a part of the tour program.

November, for soprano and cello quartet, was performed on “Sundays at the Huntington” (Capital University) , on Sunday, October 24, 2010. Performers were Cynthia Mahaney and the Columbus Cellos (Linda Bollas, Jerrie Cribb, Marcia Jones, and Anne Marie Slater).

Harlequinade for Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon and Woodblock was performed at the Biannual Conference of Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers (CFAMC), October 15, 2010 at Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana. A woodwind trio (Melissa Huempfner, flute; Andrea Hoyt, clarinet; Allison Buck, bassoon) from Ball State University performed the work.

Three Moods (for Horn and Piano) was performed at the 13th London New Wind Festival, Tuesday September 28, 2010, 7.30 p.m., at St. Cyprian’s Church, Glentworth Street, London , England.

On June 5, 2010 the Otterbein University Concert Choir was joined by the Otterbein University Chamber Orchestra for the premiere of Yet I Will Rejoice (SSATB with Chamber Orchestra) under the direction of Gayle Walker for its Spring Concert.