It was first performed in 1995 in Toluca and Mexico City with the composer as the soloist, and published by Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag in Leipzig in 2000.

[1] The composer wrote a cello concerto in 1990 and played the solo part in the premiere in Yverdon, Switzerland, in June that year.

27a, was first performed in Idstein on 5 August 2005 by the Rumänische Nationalphilharmonie Oltenia, conducted by Angela Gehann-Dernbach.

[7] Waterhouse was the soloist of the first performance in the UK on 9 February 2008 at The Dome in Cambridge, played by The Orchestra on the Hill, the combined orchestra of colleges including Churchill[8] where the composer studied[5] Conductor Dominic Wyse also directed Bernstein's Chichester Psalms in that concert.

According to the publisher, the composer shared the musical material between the soloist and the orchestra as equal partners, with concertante parts especially for the winds.