The first work commissioned through the Kronos: Under 30 Project was "Oculus Pro Oculo Totum Orbem Terrae Caecat (An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind)" by Alexandra du Bois. Born in 1981, du Bois began her training as a violinist at the age of two and as a composer at 15, studying with Sven-David Sandstrom, Don Freund, Howard Frazin, Osvaldo Golijov and Philip Lasser. Du Bois received the Kronos: Under 30 commission while a junior at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana. "Oculus Pro Oculo Totum Orbem Terrae Caecat" premiered at the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College in 2003; since then, it has been performed at numerous locations, including the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Chicago's Ravinia Festival, the Barbican in London and at Zankel Hall in New York.

The world premiere of Felipe Pérez Santiago's "CampoSanto (Holy Ground)", the second piece to be commissioned through the Kronos: Under 30 Project, took place in April 2004 at Stanford University, and has since been heard in major international cities such as Helsinki, Sydney, Auckland, Granada, San Sebastian, Paris, and Berkeley. Pérez Santiago is a Mexican-born composer working in Rotterdam, Holland; born in 1973, Pérez Santiago has received degrees in Composition from the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Musicales (CIEM) in Mexico and the Rotterdam Conservatory, where he also received a Master's in Electronic Music.

The recipient of the third Under 30 commission, Dan Visconti, had his
new work Love Bleeds Radiant premiered at the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College on January 14, 2006. Visconti, born in 1982 in La Grange, Illinois, grew up in Chicago, where he came to music at a late age, playing the violin at age 14 and composing three years later. Visconti studied composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Yale School of Music, primarily with Margaret Brouwer, Aaron Jay Kernis,
Ezra Laderman, and Zhou Long. He is currently a faculty member of the
Young Composers Program at CIM, a relatively new summer program that has attracted talented students from across the US and abroad.
Visconti’s compositions have been honored with young composer awards
from BMI, ASCAP, and NACUSA. In addition to grants from the American
Music Center and the Barlow Endowment, he has been the recipient of
artist fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Villa Montalvo, and
Copland House, one of the youngest composers to receive these
distinctions.