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Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer, musicologist, and music educator. Born in Glen Cove in 1964, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. Her musical style is associated with contemporary classical and instrumental genres.
Thomas has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, and the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Music. She is married to Bernard Rands. She has been educated at the Royal Academy of Music, Northwestern University, and St. Paul's School. She has served as an employee at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1964
Discography
- Dawn to Dust2016
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Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer. Augusta Read Thomas was born in Glen Cove, New York. She attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and then studied composition with Jacob Druckman at Yale University and at the Royal Academy of Music with Paul Patterson, as well as with Alan Stout and M. William Karlins at Northwestern University. She taught at the Eastman School of Music and received tenure there at the age of only 33, but left to teach at the Nort
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Augusta Read Thomas - Composer
The Official Website of American Composer Augusta Read Thomas. Augusta Read Thomas's music mixes extraordinary clarity and elegance with a bold resonant vitality. Its inventiveness, its lyric turns seem almost magically sustained; and, unfaillingly, result in a beautiful immediacy.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Augusta
- Family name
- Thomas
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Glen Cove
- Spouse
- Bernard Rands
- Occupation
- music educator
- Educated at
- St. Paul's School
- Employer
- University of Chicago
- Official website
- www.augustareadthomas.com
- Image
- Augusta Read Thomas in March 2022.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1964-04-24
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
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- Augusta Read Thomas
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music
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- 4375 Kiyomori
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