Percussionist, Roger Braun, is the project director of works by Harrison, Tan Dun and Mark Phillips for solo string instruments and percussion ensemble.

Percussionist, Roger Braun, is the project director of works for solo string instruments and percussion ensemble. Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra, reflects the composer’s diverse musical interests. He creates a kind of “imaginary gamelan” from a percussion orchestra. But it is the violin solo, with its rigorously controlled melodic material consisting of three intervals, that serves as the focus of the piece and demonstrates Harrison’s mastery of mid-twentieth century compositional techniques. – Roger Braun “Tan Dun, The image of Elegy: Snow in June comes from the 13th-century Chinese drama by Kuan Han-Ching; the cello "sings" of pity and purity, beauty and darkness, and is a lament for victims everywhere and at other times, joining forces with the percussion.”
Paraphrased from © 1991 by Crossings Mark Phillips, Ohio University Distinguished Professor, won the 1988 Barlow International Competition for Orchestral Music, leading to a collaboration with conductor Leonard Slatkin. His music has been performed by groups such as the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra and has been recorded by Richard Stoltzman and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lark Quartet, and several solo artists.