In 1962 MMTA established a program of commissioning works by Missouri composers; the first such commission was awarded to Merrill Ellis, a former president of the Association. Commissioned compositions are performed that the MMTA state conference each year.
| Year | Composer | Compositions |
| 2022 | Yotam Haber | |
| 2021 | Yotam Haber | |
| 2020 | Yoshi Onishi | |
| 2019 | Bret Bohman | |
| 2018 | Carolina Heredia | DRAX |
| 2017 | Ben Stevenson | |
| 2016 | Derek Jenkins | Unfinished list of the things I Love |
| 2015 | Chin Ting Chan | Cross-currents for Solo Violin |
| 2014 | Wang A. Mao | Colors of China |
| 2013 | Tyler Capp | Urban Predators for 2 Bass Clarinet |
| 2012 | Nicholas S Omiccioli | Funeral Symphony for Bassoon, Violin, Viola, and Violoncello |
| 2011 | Martin Kennedy | Balistics for Two Pianos |
| 2010 | Peiying Yuan | Garapan for Flute, Clarinet, Cello, and Piano |
| 2009 | Narong Prangcharoen | Between Heaven and Earth for Flute an Piano |
| 2008 | Christopher Biggs | 10-33 for Clarinet and Computer |
| 2007 | Jason Bolte | Scrap Metal for Piano and Mixed Media |
| 2006 | Hu Xiao-Ou | Soul for Piano |
| 2005 | Mukai Kohei | Fantasie-Bagatelles on Japanese Children’s Songs for Piano |
| 2004 | Stefan Freund | Screams and Grooves for Saxophone and Piano |
| 2003 | Stephen Prutsman | Mirror Scherzo for String Trio |
| 2002 | Leonard Mark Lewis | Trio of Time for Flute, Cello, and Piano |
| 2001 | Allen Myers | Striking Resemblance for Multi-percussion soloist and 2-Channel Electronics |
| 2000 | Paul D. Rudy | Church Keys for Piano and Tape |
| 1999 | John Akins | Five Etudes for Piano |
| 1998 | Kelly Vernon Mahon | Vibrations for Voice, Flute and Tape |
| 1997 | Robert Fruehwald | Purse Coins for Marimba and Interactive Electronics |
| 1996 | Robert Cooper | The Knotted Chord’s Untying for Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello, and Piano |
| 1995 | James Crowley | Heroic Journey Concerto for Solo Piano, Winds, and Percussion |
| 1994 | Reynold Simpson | Sonata for Soprano, Saxophone, and Piano |
| 1993 | Warren Gooch | Blues for LA for Brass Ensemble |
| 1992 | Kim Portnoy | Meditation and Frenzy for Alto Saxophone and Piano |
| 1991 | Renee Silas Waters | Mini-Merica for Brass Quintet |
| 1990 | Michael F. Hunt | |
| 1989 | John Prescott | New Mosses from an Old Manse for Violin, Cello, Piano, and Computer Electronics |
| 1988 | John Cheetham | Amulets for Oboe, Cello, and Piano |
| 1987 | James Mobberly | Caution In the Wind for Piano and Tape |
| 1985 | W. Thomas McKenny | Circles for Electronic Tape and Laser Beam |
| 1983 | Charles W. Smith | Golden Geometrics, Suite for Organ |
| 1981 | Harold Blumenfeld | La Face Cendree, Two Prose Poems from Arthur Rimbaud’s “Illuminations” for Medium Voice, Cello, and Piano |
| 1980 | John Akins | Movement for Woodwind Quintet |
| 1979 | Ronald Shroyer | Trio for Trombone, Percussion, and Piano |
| 1978 | Rhian Samuel | Intimation of Immortality for Tenor, String Orchestra, and Five Solo instruments |
| 1977 | F. M. Gilmour | Variations (Etude) for Piano |
| 1976 | Walter J. Halen | Two Poems of Dance “Pas de Deux” and “Tarantella” to texts by Robert C. Jones |
| 1975 | Gerald Kemner | Sonata for Violin and Piano |
| 1974 | Robert Wykes | Fantasy No. 2 for Piano |
| 1973 | John E. Cheetham | Orchestral Suite |
| 1972 | Walter Kaufmann | String Quartet |
| 1970 | W. Thomas McKenney | Three Miniatures for Piano, One Electronic Piece for Synthesizer, Three Trajectories for Quartet |
| 1969 | David Alex Gordon | Bright Halls of Freedom for Voice |
| 1968 | Donald A.J. Bohlen | Autumn Generation (joint commission MTNA/MMTA) Robert Jones, text; Richard Manson, film, String Orchestra |
| 1963 | Merrill Ellis | “Scintillation” for piano |