Composer of the Week

Composer of the Week, Vol. I, Issue I – January 14, 2008

Name:  Augusta Read Thomas

Born:  1964, New York

Current post:  Full-time composer

Previous post:  Composer-In-Residence, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Publisher:  G. Schirmer

Suggested listening:  Silhouettes

Quote: 

Don’t assume that someone else has the only “authentic” understanding of a work and that you “don’t know enough about it” to be engaged by it. Simply open your heart, ears and mind and listen YOUR way.

-Augusta Read Thomas, in an interview for a Chicago Symphony Orchestra program booklet