January 30, 2006: CAPRICE for solo violin, Juilliard School of Music Sonic Boom Festival.
January 30, 2006: PULSAR for solo violin and CAPRICE for solo violin, performed by Walden Chamber Players in New York City.
February 24, 2006: SHAKIN' for orchestra will be premiered by the Memphis Symphony, David Loebel, Conductor.
February 26, 2006: SUN SONGS for Mezzo and 3 percussion will be premiered by the Percussion Plus Project of Depauw University.
March 3, 2006: Musica Nova Festival, Helsinki, Finland — featured composer. WORDS OF THE SEA for orchestra and CREDENCES OF SUMMER for orchestra will be performed.
March 9, 2006: Featured Composer at Smith College; a full concert of chamber music will be presented.
March 16-18 2006: SILHOUETTES for solo marimba, will be played by Gifford Howarth at the Youg Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore.
 Daniel Barenboim and Augusta Read Thomas |
March 25, 2006: BERKSHIRE SONGS for chorus and children's chorus will premiere in Omaha Nebraska.
March 28, 2006: Featured Composer, American Composers Forum, Chicago; RUMI SETTINGS,PIANO ETUDES and PULSAR will be performed.
April 3, 2006: MusicNOW Ensemble, Oliver Knussen Conductor, Baird Dodge, violin soloist, will premiere CARILLON SKY for violin and chamber orchestra, Chicago, IL.
April 17, 18, 19, 2006: Featured Composer, North Carolina School for the Arts, presenting a concert of chamber music.
April 22 and 23, 2006: CARILLON SKY will be performed by Orchestra 2001, Philadelphia, PA, James Freeman, Conductor.
April 23, 2006: SUN SONGS for mezzo and 3 percussion, New England Conservatory, Boston, Frank Epstein, conductor.
April 29 and 30, 2006: THE RUB OF LOVE will be performed by Chamber choir CONSONO, Harald Jers, conductor, in Aachen and Bonn, Germany.
May 13 and 14, 2006: THE RUB OF LOVE will be performed by Chamber choir CONSONO, Harald Jers, conductor, in Wuppertal and Cologne, Germany.
May 22, 2006: THE RUB OF LOVE will be performed by Chamber choir CONSONO, Harald Jers, conductor, in 7th German Choir Competition, Kiel, Germany.
May 19, 2006: SIX ETUDES for solo piano, Amy Dissanayke, Depaul University; and Amy is presenting several other performances of SIX ETUDES.
May 21, 2006: RUMI SETTINGS will be performed by the Pilgrim Chamber Players.
May 21, 2006: SIX ETUDES for solo piano, Amy Dissanayke, Northwestern University, Pick Staiger Concert Hall.
May 25, 2006: LOVE SONGS will be performed by Lontano and The BBC Singers, Odaline de la Martinez, conductor, at St. Giles Cripplegate, London, UK.
June 1,2,3, 2006: Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiere ASTRAL CANTICLE for solo violin, solo flute and orchestra, Symphony Center, Chicago, IL.
June 3, 2006: PRAYER AND CELEBRATION will be premiered by the Saint Paul's Orchestra, Concord, NH, David Seaton, Conductor
June 6-10, 2006: Faculty Artist at June in Buffalo Festival.
June 6, 2006: CARILLON SKY for solo violin and ensemble will be performend by solo violinist, Movses Pogossian and the June in Buffalo Ensemble.
June 14-18,2006: Faculty Artist at Sound Encounters Festival at the New England Conservatory, Boston.
June 16, 2006: Concert of chamber works by other faculty members, New England Conservatory, Boston
June 18, 2006: Concert of other chamber works by students, New England Conservatory, Boston
July 3, 2006: ANGEL TEARS & EARTH PRAYERS for organ and trumpet, will be premiered by the American Guild of Organists at their national convention, Chicago, IL.
July 28, 2006: CHANTING TO PARADISE for chorus, orchestra, and soprano soloist, will be performed by the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo, conducted by Christian Arming in a subscription concert at Suntory Hall.
September 28, 29, 30, 2006: TANGLE for orchestra will be performed by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in Tennessee.
October 28, 2006: NEW WORK for violin and piano will be premiered by Rachel Barton Pine.
October 28 and 29, 2006: SHAKIN' for orchestra will be performed by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, David Loebel, conductor.
November 8, 9, 10, 2006: Principal Composer at Indiana State University Annual Festival.
November 10, 2006: RITUAL INCANTATIONS for cello and chamber orchestra, Julian Hersh, cello soloist; and SHAKIN' for orchestra will be performed by the Louisville Orchestra.
January 18, 2007: TRACES for solo piano will be premiered by Lang Lang at the Montalvo Festival in California
January 27 and 28, 2007: IN MY SKY AT TWILIGHT, Orchestra 2001, Philadelphia, PA.
February 16 and 17, 2007: PIANO ETUDES, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.
March 5, 2007: PIANO ETUDES, Merkin Concert Hall, NYC.
March 6, 2007: SPIRIT MUSINGS for violin and orchestra, Hartt College of Music, Anton Miller, soloist.
March 13, 2007: PIANO ETUDES, Smith College.
March 25, 2007: ...a circle around the sun..., Brooklyn Philharmonic.
March 27- 29, 2007: Resident Composer, SIUC, Carbondale, Illinois. Works played include: THE REWAKING for chorus; FRUIT OF MY SPIRIT for chorus; MAGNETICFIREFLIES for band; DIAGONALS for solo clarinet; INCANTATION for solo viola; PULSAR for solo viola, BELLS RING SUMMER for cello; PIANO ETUDES.
April 21, 2007: CREDENCES OF SUMMER for orchestra will be performed and recorded by the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Orchestra.
April 23, 2007: Guest Composer, Buffalo, NY Seminary.
April 26, 2007: Guest Composer, Philadelphia Music Project.
April 26, 2007: WORDS OF THE SEA for orchestra will be performed by the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine in France, Kirill Karabits, conductor.
May 3,4,5,6, 2007: HELIOS CHOROS I will be premiered by the Dallas Symphony, Sir Andrew Davis, conductor.
May 6, 2007: Voices of Change, in Dallas, will perform a concert of Augusta's chamber music, including: INCANTATION for solo violin; SIX PIANO ETUDES; PULSAR for solo viola; AMONG DAWN FLOWERS for voice and piano; RUMI SETTINGS for violin and viola; SUN THREADS for String Quartet.
July 12, 2007: LOVE SONGS will be performed by the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, Odaline de la Martinez, conductor, in Dublin.
July 12, 2007: CHANT for cello and piano was performed by Joshua Gordon and Randall Hodgkinson at the Goethe-Institut, Boston.
July 31, 2007: MEMORY: SWELLS for two guitars, European Premiere at the Oberste Stadtkirche in Iserlohn as part of the 16th International Guitar Symposium.
August 4, 2007: CAPRICE for solo violin will be performed by Valentina Voskresenskaya at the Taras Shevchenko National Museum festival in Kyiv, Ukraine.
September 28, 2007: LOVE JITTERS for solo piano will be performed by Nicola Melville at Carleton College.
October 7 - 14, 2007: Augusta is a guest artist at the Aspen Music Festival, Colorado.
October 13 and 14, 2007: MURMURS IN THE MIST OF MEMORY will be performed by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane conducting.
October 18, 2007: World Premiere of TERPSICHORE'S DREAM, for chamber orchestra by the Utah Symphony, Cliff Colnot conducting.
October 18, 2007: Visiting artist lecturer at the University of Utah and at Brigham Young University.
October 21, 2007: World Premiere of DANCING HELIX RITUALS for violin, clarinet and piano, The Verdehr Trio, at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
October 21-22, 2007: World Premiere of SCHERZI MUSICALI, for brass quartet, premiered by Charles Geyer, Barbara Butler, Michael Mulcahy, and Gail Williams on the Chicago Chamber Musicians series, Chicago, IL. This work was commissioned by and is dedicated to Gail Williams.
October 27, 2007: World Premiere of JUGGLER OF DAY, for womens chorus, at Cornell University, Scott Tucker conducting the Cornell University Glee Club.
November 6, 2007: RUMI SETTINGS for violin and cello will be performed by Wendy Sharp and Scott Kluksdahl at Yale University.
November 9, 2007: World Premiere of SCAT, for oboe, string trio, and harpsichord, by the Walden Chamber Players, Smith College in Northampton, MA.
November 11, 2007: World Premiere of SCAT, for oboe, string trio, and harpsichord, by the Walden Chamber Players, The Hampshire County House of Corrections.
November 11, 2007: World Premiere of SCAT, for oboe, string trio, and harpsichord, by the Walden Chamber Players, Clark Art Museum in Williamstown, MA.
November 17, 2007: MAGNETIC FIREFLIES for band, Jack Delaney conducting the Columbus State University Band, for both a conducting symposium as well as a concert.
November 18-21, 2007: Residency at the University of North Texas.
November 19, 2007: SCAT, THE SOUL IS LIGHT, and D(i)agon(als), played by the NOVA ENSEMBLE, University of North Texas, Dr. Elizabeth McNutt, Director.
November 22, 2007: PIANO ETUDES will be played by James Giles at the Sound Ways festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.
November 26 and 28, 2007: SUN SONGS for female voice and 3 percussion, performed by Debra Siebert on the NEXTET concert at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Doc Rando Hall.
December 12, 2007: HELIOS CHOROS III commissioned by the Orchestre de Paris, at Cité de la Musique, in Paris, Orchestre de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach conducting.
December 14, 2007: INCANTATION for solo violin; BELLS RING SUMMER for solo cello; SILENT MOON for violin and viola; performed by the Millennium Chamber Players, artistiic director Robert Katkov-Trevino, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chicago, IL at 7:30 PM.
December 23, 2007: MEMORY: SWELLS for guitar duo will be performed at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, by the Fader/Anderson Duo.
TBD in 2007: World Premiere of SILENT MOON for violin and viola, Almita and Roland Vamos.
January 20, 2008: Millennium Chamber Players, Robert Katkov-Trevino, conductor, will perform SPIRIT MUSINGS for violin and chamber orchestra (soloist: Baird Dodge, Principal 2nd Violin, Chicago Symphony Orchestra); PASSION PRAYERS for ensemble and solo cello (soloist: Katinka Kleijn, member cello section CSO); and CARILLON SKY for violin and chamber ensemble (soloist: Baird Dodge, Principal 2nd Violin, CSO), at the Lutkin Concert Hall at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
January 22, 2008: SPIRIT MUSINGS for violin and chamber orchestra, Millennium Chamber Players, Robert Katkov-Trevino, conductor (soloist: Baird Dodge, Principal 2nd Violin, CSO), live on WFMT radio's Impromptu, at 4:00 PM, from the studios of WFMT 98.7 FM (click here for live stream).
January 22, 2008: Millennium Chamber Players, Robert Katkov-Trevino, conductor, will perform SPIRIT MUSINGS for violin and chamber orchestra (soloist: Baird Dodge, Principal 2nd Violin, Chicago Symphony Orchestra); PASSION PRAYERS for ensemble and solo cello (soloist: Katinka Kleijn, member cello section CSO); and CARILLON SKY for violin and chamber ensemble (soloist: Baird Dodge, Principal 2nd Violin, CSO), at Sherwood Conservatory Concert Hall, Chicago, IL.
January 23, 2008: dal niente chamber ensemble will perform SCAT for chamber ensemble and TOFT SERENADE for violin and piano in Ganz Hall, Chicago. This concert also features the music of Oliver Knussen.
February 4, 2008: SHAKIN' for orchestra will be performed by the New England Conservatory Orchestra, David Loebel, conductor.
February 8, 2008: Colloquium artist at the University of Chicago.
February 10-17, 2008 (and 1 week in May 2008 TBD): Augusta is the Music-Alive Composer-in- Residence with the Patel Youth Orchestra, Tampa, Florida.
February 17, 2008: CREDENCES OF SUMMER for orchestra will be played by the USF Orchestra in Tampa, conducted by Dr. William W. Wiedrich.
February 17, 2008: Chamber work to be played as part of the Robert Helps Composition Competition.
February 18 - March 9, 2008: Master-Artist-in-Residence, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Teaching composition for 3 weeks.
February 20, 2008: TERPSICHORE'S DREAM for chamber orchestra, Indiana University Orchestra, Cliff Colnot conducting.
February 29 and March 2, 2008: LULLABY, Bells and Prayers for Elliott for solo piano, Network for New Music, Philadelphia. In Honor of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday year.
March 7, 2008: World Premiere of EURYTHMY ETUDES, for solo piano, commissioned by the Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Eurythmy Faculty, presented with eurythmy at Alanus Hochschule, Eurythmy Faculty in Alfter bei Bonn, Germany (near Cologne).
March 10 and 11, 2008: Visiting Scholar at the Hochschule Musik und Theater in Zürich. Works to be performed are TBD.
April 14, 2008: SQUEEZE for saxophone quartet will be performed at the North American Saxophone Alliance at the University of South Carolina by The Babco Saxophone Quartet. This performance was generously arranged by Dr. Frederick L. Hemke.
April 27 - May 3, 2008: Augusta is a guest artist at the Aspen Music Festival.
May 11, 2008: GALAXY DANCES for orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis, Orcenith Smith conducting.
May 18, 2008: World premiere of DREAM THREADS, a ballet for youth orchestra and youth ballet, will be presented by the Patel Conservatory Youth Orchestra, at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, conducted by Dr. William W. Wiedrich.
June 18-21, 2008: TRACES for solo piano, Heidi Louise Williams, pianist. Paramount Plaza Conference Center and University of Florida, Gainesville at the Florida State Music Teacher's Association Conference.
Summer 2008: Augusta will again be on the composition faculty at the Tanglewood Music Center.
TBD in summer 2008: World Premiere of NEW WORK commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival, Colorado.
October 24, 2008: World Premiere: NEW WORK for children's chorus, by the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, California.
December 2008: HELIOS CHOROS II co-commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra, will be premiered by the London Symphony, Daniel Harding, conducting. The BSO premiere date is TBD.
TBD in 2008: World Premiere of NEW WORK, in celebration and memoriam Mstislav Rostropovich, for cello and piano, will be premiered and recorded by cellist Matt Haimovitz. This work was commissioned by The A.S.C.A.P. Foundation.
On January 16, 2009: VIOLIN CONCERTO NUMBER 3, co-commissioned by Festival Présences with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the BBC Proms, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brown, with Frank-Peter Zimmermann as violin soloist, will premiere in Salle Pleyel, Paris, with Kazuchi Ono, conducting.
January 22, 2009: World Premiere of ABSOLUTE OCEAN for solo soprano, solo harp and orchestra, commissioned by the Houston Symphony, Hans Graf conducting, with Paula Page, harp and Twyla Robinson, soprano.
May 7, 8, 9, 2009: HELIOS CHOROS I for orchestra will be performed by the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, Oliver Knussen, conductor.
May 10, 2009: CARILLON SKY for solo violin and ensemble will be performed by the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, Oliver Knussen, conductor.
May 17, 2009: World Premiere of DREAM CATCHER, a 25-minute work for solo violin, commissioned by Voices of Change in Dallas, Texas. To be premiered by Maria Schleuning.
May 23, 2009: The Cleveland Orchestra, Severance Hall, Oliver Knussen, conductor. New Music Festival program to include music by Augusta Read Thomas.
NEW WORK for the Juilliard Orchestra.
 Sketch of Prayer Bells by the composer. |
New York Philharmonic signs contract with New World Records; Gathering Paradise included on first CD
Augusta Read Thomas's Gathering Paradise, for soprano and orchestra to texts by Emily Dickinson, will appear on the New York Philharmonic's upcoming CD. The New York Philharmonic, who commissioned and premiered the work, has just signed a contract with New World Records with an agreement to release two recordings annually. The first CD, containing Gathering Paradise, has a release date of May 2006.
Heidi Grant Murphy, who presented the premiere performances in September 2004, is the soprano on this recording. Lorin Maazel conducts. Other works on the recording include Stephen Hartke's Symphony No. 3 and Jacob Druckman's Summer Lightning.
NEW GUITAR DUET: Memory: SWELLS
The Newman & Oltman Guitar Due will present the world premiere of Memory: SWELLS on Saturday, May 28, 2005 during a concert of the Raritan River Music Festival in Clinton, New Jersey. Memory: SWELLS was commissioned by Raritan River Music's New Music Commissioning Program, with generous support from The Augustine Foundation. For more information visit the websites:
www.RaritanRiverMusic.org
www.guitarduo.com
Credences of Summer World Premiere
Credences of Summer for orchestra will be premiered by the San Diego Orchestra, Jahja Ling conducting, on May 20, 2005.
Miller Theater Portrait Series Concert and Discussion
On April 7, 2005, Augusta Read Thomas will give a preconcert discussion at New York's Miller Theater. The discussion will be followed by the New York premieres of Thomas's Silver Chants the Litanies, In My Sky at Twilight, and Spirit Musings, and the world premiere of a new (as yet untitled) work, as part of the Miller Theater's Composer Portrait Series. Alan Pierson will conduct the Alarm Will Sound ensemble.
DePauw University to Host Residency and World Premiere of Sun Songs
Augusta Read Thomas will be in residency at DePauw University from March 1-6, 2005. In connection with the residency, several concerts will be presented, including the world premiere of Thomas's Sun Songs for mezzo and three percussionists.
Prairie Sketches I: Diamonds on Orchid Velvet World Premiere
Prairie Sketches I: Diamonds on Orchid Velvet for soprano and ensemble will be premiered by the Callisto Ensemble, Cliff Colnot conducting, Tony Arnold, soprano, on January 9, 2005.
Boulez birthday concert commission to premiere in France
Grace Notes (for orchestra), for the Pierre Boulez birthday concert, will premiere on January 5, 2005 with Markus Stenz conducting The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. The work was commissioned by Festival Présences with The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
Purple Syllables World Premiere
Purple Syllables for chorus, commissioned by Music Accord Inc. for Chanticleer, and set to texts of Emily Dickinson, will be premiered by Chanticleer throughout the 2005 season. World premiere date is to be announced.
World Premiere of Dancing Galaxy for Band
Augusta Read Thomas's new work for band, Dancing Galaxy, will be premiered by the New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble, conducted by Frank Battisti, on November 11, 2004. The following week Dancing Galaxy will be performed and recorded by the Southern Methodist University Meadows Wind Ensemble, conducted by Jack Delaney.
New York Philharmonic World Premiere of Gathering Paradise
Gathering Paradise for soprano and orchestra will have its world premiere at Lincoln Center with Lorin Maazel conducting the New York Philharmonic, on September 29, 30, and October 1, 2, and 5, 2004.
Augusta Read Thomas teaches at Tanglewood
Augusta Read Thomas will spend the summer of 2004 teaching composition and contemporary music at the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC), where TMC resident faculty, along with distinguished guest faculty composers, lead lectures and provide individual mentoring for TMC Composition Fellows.
Augusta Read Thomas continues residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Augusta Read Thomas recently renewed her agreement as composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through 2006: and it recently became the first composer in residence position in the US to have an endowed chair. Ms. Thomas has been Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1997.
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Chicago presents world premiere of Tangle
Tangle (for orchestra) had its world premiere with David Robertson conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on March 18, 2004.
World premiere of Silver Chants the Litanies, in memorium Luciano Berio
Silver Chants the Litanies, in memorium Luciano Berio (for solo horn and chamber orchestra), commissioned by Southern Methodist University, received its world premiere on February 20, 2004 with Jack Delaney conducting.
Pulsar premiered in February
Pulsar, for solo violin, had its American premiere by violinist Movses Pogossian in Buffalo, NY on Feb 10, 2004.
World premiere of Bubble: Rainbow (spirit level)
Lucy Shelton, soprano, and the Ensemble Sospeso with Rand Steiger conducting, presented the world premiere of Augusta Read Thomas's new work, Bubble: Rainbow (spirit level) (for soprano and ensemble), at the Gala 95th Birthday concert in honor of Elliott Carter in New York, on January 30, 2004. Tony Arnold and the Callisto Ensemble, Cliff Colnot conducting, also performed the work in Chicago, Illinois, in January 2004.
Augusta Read Thomas premieres Trombone Concerto with Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, premiered Augusta Read Thomas's trombone concerto, Canticle Weaving, on March 31, 2003. Ralph Sauer was the soloist. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Mark Swed commented, "In Canticle Weaving...the trombone maintains a noble bearing but is not afraid to swing....I heard in the solo line the commanding voice of an uncommon leader — astute, steadfast, courtly and a good dancer. Kofi Annan came to mind."
Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, composer Augusta Read Thomas, and trombonist Ralph Sauer
Photo © 2003 by David Weiss; Used by Permission
Scribner's Ringing Endorsement
By Joseph McLellan
Washington Post February 26, 2000
Bells were ringing last night in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. The Choral Arts Society, Norman Scribner conducting, gave a program that began with "wild bells," concluded with funeral bells and included sleigh bells, wedding bells and (most spectacularly) fire-alarm bells in between.
The program opened with the world premiere of the brilliantly imaginative, rich-textured "Ring out, wild bells to the wild sky" of Augusta Read Thomas, a setting of selected texts by Alfred Lord Tennyson, notably "In Memoriam" and "Crossing the Bar." It began, appropriately, with prolonged bell sounds, not only on metallic percussion but also in the choral voices that held the first syllable, "Ring," with a bell-like resonance. Read more...
Augusta Read Thomas signs with G. Schirmer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
27 November 2000
G. Schirmer, Inc. announces the signing of Augusta Read Thomas to an exclusive five-year composer contract, in which the company will represent the music formerly in Thomas's own company ART Musings, as well as her future compositions.
"We are thrilled to welcome Augusta Read Thomas to G. Schirmer and the affiliated companies of the Music Sales Group worldwide," states vice president Susan Feder. "A tremendously gifted composer, Thomas has had a meteoric rise to success on an international level and has been championed by musicians as diverse as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Mariss Jansons, Seiji Ozawa, Mstislav Rostropovich, John Nelson, Christian Lindberg, David Finckel, Chanticleer, and the Avalon Quartet. Read more...
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