Composer Patrick Zimmerli has released 6 CDs of his music. He has written two Piano Concertos, two Piano Trios, numerous solo and chamber pieces, and over 40 works for his ensemble Emergence, featuring jazz saxophone, string quartet, world percussion, and electronics. In 2009 he completed a large-scale Chamber Symphony for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and a multimedia orchestral piece inspired by architecture for the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. Other commissioners include the Ying String Quartet and the Seattle Chamber Music Festival. He is producing a CD featuring pianists Kevin Hays and Brad Mehldau for ECM Records, and his violin piece The Light Guitar will be recorded by Tim Fain for the Naxos label. Zimmerli has been performed at MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum, on NPR’s Fresh Sounds, and recorded on Arabesque, Blue Note, Songlines, and Koch labels. Awards includefirst prize in the BMI/Thelonious Monk Institute Composers' Competition.