Composition Fifth Stream Music actively seeks out opportunities to develop new works for the Asian American Orchestra and in collaboration with other artists and ensembles.

Anthony Brown has been composing music for over thirty years. His first formal commission was awarded in 1983 by the San Francisco Chamber Music Society to compose an extended work for jazz quartet and string trio, and he has gone on to earn successive commissions from organizations, such as the Asian Heritage Council and the Rockefeller Foundation, for works that are now part of the Orchestra's standard repertoire. Among these is Rhymes (For Children), which became the theme music for KQED's Pacific Time, a Public Radio International syndicated weekly newsmagazine broadcast.

Recent new works include Cross Currents, a collaboration with Dimensions Dance Theater supported by the Creative Work Fund, and the score for San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater's production of Philip Gotanda's After the War.

Click here for a list of selected commissioned compositions.