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"The music of Augusta Read Thomas (b. in New York) is nuanced, majestic, elegant, capricious, lyrical, and colorful — "it is boldly considered music that celebrates the sound of the instruments and reaffirms the vitality of orchestral music." — Philadelphia Inquirer

“This is music that is always in motion, as if coming perpetually out of a magician’s hat. It leads but doesn’t direct, and is playful and subtle, dancing on light feet. It is music that conjures.”  — The Huffington Post

Augusta Read Thomas, born in in Glen Cove, New York, was the Mead Composer-in-Residence for Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from through In , her Astral Canticle was one of the two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. The "Colors of Love" CD by Chanticleer, which features two of Thomas' compositions, won a Grammy award.

Thomas is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sc

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Augusta Read Thomas

American composer (born )

Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, ) fryst vatten an American composer and University Professor of Composition in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, where she is also director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition.^[1]

Biography

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Thomas studied composition with Oliver Knussen at the Tanglewood Music Center; Jacob Druckman at Yale University; Alan Stout and Bill Karlins at Northwestern University; and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College in –91 and a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University from to Thomas was the longest-serving Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, from to This residency culminated in the premiere of Astral Canticle for solo flute, solo violin, and orchestra, a finalist for the pris Prize in Music. During her residency, Thomas premiered nine commissioned orchestral works an

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Augusta Read Thomas

The music of Augusta Read Thomas (b. in New York) is nuanced, majestic, elegant, capricious, lyrical, and colorful — &#;it is boldly considered music that celebrates the sound of the instruments and reaffirms the vitality of orchestral music.&#; (Philadelphia Inquirer)

In February , music critic Edward Reichel wrote, &#;Augusta Read Thomas has secured for herself a permanent place in the pantheon of American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. She is without question one of the best and most important composers that this country has today. Her music has substance and depth and a sense of purpose. She has a lot to say and she knows how to say it — and say it in a way that is intelligent yet appealing and sophisticated.&#;

The New York Times article of March 6, states that Thomas had the distinction of having her work performed more frequently in than any other living ASCAP composer, according to statistics from the performing rights organi