2011
December 2011: World premiere of WHITE FIRE OF THE STARS, Songs of Eternity, Homage to Gustav Mahler for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano, and Nathan Gunn, baritone, that will premiere in Carnegie Hall.
August 19, 2011: The Lincoln Trio will perform MOON JIG at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. This is in combination with their CD release of MOON JIG on Cedille Records, recorded by Grammy award winning producer, Judith Sherman.
 With American Music Center friends Frank J. Oteri (Composer, Composer Advocate, and Founding Editor of NewMusicBox) and Molly Sheridan (Managing Editor, NewMusicBox, and Director, Counterstream Radio) |
June 2-5, 2011: Augusta is "Mentor-Composer" for American Composer's Orchestra's Underwood New Music Readings for Emerging Composers in New York City.
April 16, 2011: As part of holding the McIlroy Family Visiting Professorship in the Performing and Visual Arts, at the University of Arkansas' J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and the Walton Arts Center, for the 2010-2011 academic year, Augusta will be composing FLOATING TEMPLES, BASHŌ HAIKU SETTINGS for a mixture of student musicians from their choruses, orchestra and band playing alongside some of their faculty performers.
April 4, 2011: A full concert of all (or most) of Augusta's solo piano compositions at The University of South Florida, to celebrate and inaugurate their new concert hall. Dr. Svetozar Ivanov is playing, coaching and leading all the preparations for this concert. Dharshini Tambiah will be playing BALLADE. Others will play TRACES, SIX PIANO ETUDES, LOVE TWITTERS, and EURYTHMY ETUDE.
April 3, 2011: World premiere: NEW WORK for large chorus and orchestra, commissioned by The University of South Florida to celebrate and inaugurate their new concert hall, Dr. William W. Wiedrich, conducting.
March 20, 2011: TOFT SERENADE for violin and piano at The Windup Space in Baltimore, presented by The League of the Unsound Sound (LotUS), David Smooke, Founding Director. Performed by Courtney Orlando, violin, and Shirley Yoo, piano.
March 10 and 11, 2011: World premiere of RADIANT CIRCLES for orchestra, commissioned by the New Haven Symphony, with support from the Music Alive program of the League of American Orchestras and Meet the Composer, William Boughton, conducting.
February 20-24, 2011: Augusta will be a guest of the Abravanel Visiting Composer Series, organized by Morris Rosenzweig, at the Univeristy of Utah, Salt Lake City. Curt Macomber, violin, Chris Finckel, cello, and Steve Gosling, piano will play her chamber works including: BALLADE for solo piano (2008), ...A CIRCLE AROUND THE SUN... for piano trio (2000), TOFT SERENADE for violin and piano (2006), SILENT MOON for violin and cello (2005), and DREAM CATCHER for solo violin (2007).
February 19, 2011: TOFT SERENADE for violin and piano at SUNY Fredonia, presented by The League of the Unsound Sound (LotUS), David Smooke, Founding Director. Performed by Courtney Orlando (violin) and Shirley Yoo (piano).
February 16, 2011: DAYLIGHT DIVINE for soprano, choir, and orchestra will be performed by Vox Aurea and the Sinfonia Finlandia (Lasse Allonen, general manager) with William Boughton, conducting.
February 10, 2011: World Premiere of PILGRIM SOUL for English Horn and Two Violins at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC.
February 2 and 3, 2011: ABSOLUTE OCEAN for solo soprano, harp obbligato and orchestra, Hana Park soprano soloist, performed by the New Haven Symphony, William Boughton, conducting.
January 27, 2011: Auditorium Chamber Music Series, Moscow, Idaho, MOON JIG for piano trio and A CIRCLE AROUND THE SUN for piano trio, played by the Walden Chamber Players, Christof Huebner Artistic Director.
January 24-29, 2011: in Brussels, Belgium
2010
December 6, 2010: SIX PIANO ETUDES (1996) will be performed at the Univeristy of Utah, Salt Lake City, on a concert organized by composer Morris Rosenzweig.
December 1 and 2, 2010: DAYLIGHT DIVINE for solo soprano, children's choir and orchestra, Hana Park soprano soloist, and the Fairfield Children's Choir (Jon Noyes, Music Director & Founder) performed by the New Haven Symphony, William Boughton, conducting.
November 13, 2010: Chicago premiere of movement #4, GAMBOL: "whimsical virtuosic romp (Like a bebop jazz big-band meets Varèse" from JUBILEE for orchestra, by Cliff Colnot's DePaul University Orchestra, for which Michael Lewanski will be guest conducting.
November 9, 2010: American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City.
November 4-8, 2010: Visiting Guest Composer at The Cleveland Institute of Music, New Music Ensemble. Several chamber works will be performed and they repeat the program at the Cleveland Museum for Contemporary Art the following week. Keith Fitch Head, Composition Department, Vincent K. and Edith H. Smith Chair in Composition, is hosting and organizing this event. Works to be performed include SCAT for ensemble, PASSION PRAYERS for solo cello and ensemble, TOFT SERENADE for violin and piano.
October 25-29, 2010: LAKE REFLECTING STARS WITH MOONRISE for alto saxophone and cello will be played on a tour of Canada in: London, Calgary, Medicine Hat, Saskatoon, and Vancouver. Played by the Helton-Thomas Duo, Jonathan Helton, saxophone and Steven Thomas, violoncello.
October 16 and 17, 2010: from TWO E.E. CUMMINGS SONGS for chorus, Vox Musica, Daniel Paulson, Music Director, will perform (KISS ME) in Sacramento, California.
October 12, 2010: American premiere of FÊTE for brass ensemble, New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble, conducted by Charles Peltz, in Boston. This work is dedicated to Shulamit Ran on the occasion of her 60th birthday.
September 25, 2010: TRACES for solo piano will be performed by Makiko Hirata in Duncan Hall at The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University.
September 21, 2010: CARILLON SKY for violin and tiny orchestra will be performed by Mei-Fang Wang, violin soloist, and The University of Illinois New Music Ensemble, Steven Taylor, conductor, at the Krannert Center.
September 8, 9, 10, 2010: World premiere of OF PARADISE AND LIGHT for string orchestra by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conducting.
August 14, 2010: on Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Oliver Knussen, John Harbison and Gunther Schuller Co-Directors, TRACES for solo piano, Makiko Hirata, pianist, Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA.
August 1 2010: TRACES for solo piano, Makiko Hirata, pianist, Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA.
July 15, 2010: The U.K. premiere of CAPRICIOUS ANGELS, conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum, at the New Music Festival at Guildhall School, London. Artist Elise Naomi Buddle will be painting live to the music.
July 2010: Faculty at Tanglewood Music Center. Exact dates TBD.
June 19, 2010: World premiere of FÊTE for brass ensemble by the Monarch Brass Ensemble. This work is dedicated to Shulamit Ran on the occasion of her 60th birthday.
June 16-20, 2010: Composer in Residence, Visiting Artist, The International Women's Brass Conference 2010, Humber College, Toronto, Canada.
June 6-11, 2010: Composer in Residence, Visiting Artist, New Haven Symphony.
May 31-June 6: Faculty Artist, June in Buffalo Festival. Works to be performed include: TERPSICHORE'S DREAM for orchestra, BALLADE for solo piano, EUTERPE'S CAPRICE for solo flute, CARILLON SKY for violin solo and chamber orchestra.
May 19, 2010: American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City.
May 3, 2010: American Music Center board meetings in New York City.
April 30, 2010: World premiere of JUBILEE for orchestra, by the Juilliard Orchestra, Ms. Xian Zhang conducting, in Alice Tully Hall, New York.
April 28, 2010: Visiting Artist, Mannes College of Music, New York City.
April 27 and 29, 2010: Visiting Artist, Manhattan School of Music, New York. Students will perform: ...A CIRCLE AROUND THE SUN... for piano trio.
April 27, 2010: Visiting Artist, Brooklyn College, New York.
April 26, 2010: Visiting Artist, The Juilliard School of Music, New York City.
April 18, 2010: SHAKIN' for orchestra will be performed by the University of South Florida Symphony Orchestra, Dr. William W. Wiedrich conducting.
April 9, 2010: The Ohio State University will perform many works, including DANCING GALAXY for band, ...A CIRCLE AROUND THE SUN... for piano trio, SILENT MOON for violin and cello, BUBBLE: RAINBOW - (SPIRIT LEVEL) for soprano and ensemble, SILHOUETTES for solo marimba and INVOCATIONS (from Sun Threads) for string quartet.
April 5- 11, 2010: Composer in Residence at The Ohio State University Music Festival.
March 31, 2010: TRACES (complete work - Connecticut premiere), and three etudes (I, II, and II) from SIX PIANO ETUDES, performed by Matthew McCright at the Hartt School of Music, Hartford, Connecticut (CT)
March 30, 2010: Three etudes (I, II, and II) from SIX PIANO ETUDES, performed by Matthew McCright at Capitol College, Hartford, Connecticut
March 29, 2010: Three etudes (I, II, and II) from SIX PIANO ETUDES, performed by Matthew McCright at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
March 25, 2010: TERPSICHORE'S DREAM for chamber orchestra will be performed by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Mischa Santora conducting, at the newly renovated Memminger Auditorium in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.
March 18, 2010: TRACES (complete work - NYC premiere) for solo piano, and three etudes (I, II, and II) from SIX PIANO ETUDES, North River Music Series, Matthew McCright, pianist, New York City.
March 9, 2010: The Grawemeyer Award Concert, sponsored by the University of Louisville, at Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall, New York City. Augusta has been invited to give the pre-concert lecture which she titled, "A Leap of Faith: Creativity and Patronage in Contemporary Music in 2010 — The Grawemeyer Award in its 25th year."
March 7, 2010: AURORA for piano and orchestra, Gloria Cheng, pianist and Patricia Prunty, soprano in the coda of the concerto.
March 7-13, 2010: Guest artist at the 9th Annual CSUF (Cal State Fullerton) New Music Festival: The Pianist in the 21st Century.
March 5, 2010 at 4PM: Composer in Residence at the Music Institute of Chicago. Works to be performed include: DREAM CATCHER for solo violin, ...A CIRCLE AROUND THE SUN... for piano trio, SILENT MOON for violin and cello, SCAT for ensemble, INCANTATION for solo violin.
February 26, 2010: RING OUT WILD BELLS TO THE WILD SKY for chorus, solo soprano and orchestra will be performed at the American Choral Director's Association in Cincinnati, Earl Rivers conducting.
February 25, 2010: Lecturing on vocal music at the American Choral Director's Association in Cincinnati.
February 22-27, 2010: Composer in Residence at the American Choral Director's Association in Cincinnati, and at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
February 21, 2010: Pequot Library in Darien presents "An Evening with Augusta Read Thomas." Chamber works, which will be performed by members of the New Haven Symphony, William Boughton coordinating, include: ...A CIRCLE AROUND THE SUN... for piano trio, SILENT MOON for violin and cello, and TOFT SERENADE for violin and piano.
February 18 and 19, 2010: PRAYER AND CELEBRATION for orchestra, performed by the New Haven Symphony, William Boughton, conducting.
February 17-21, 2010: Composer in Residence, Visiting Artist, New Haven Symphony.
February 4, 2010: Visiting Artist, Roosevelt University Department of Music, Chicago, IL.
February 1, 2010: American Music Center board meetings in New York City.
January 21, 2010: Visiting Artist, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, MD.
January 19 and 20, 2010: American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City.
January 7 and 8, 2010: American Music Center board meetings in New York City.
2009
December 5 and 6, 2009: American Music Center board meetings in Los Angeles.
November 9, 2009: SILVER CHANTS THE LITANIES for solo horn and orchestra performed by DePaul University, Michael Lewanski, conducting.
November 8-12, 2009: University of Louisville, School of Music, Augusta is the 2009 New Music Festival's featured guest composer. Works to be performed include: TERPSICHORE'S DREAM for orchestra, RING FLOURISH BLAZE for band, CAPRICIOUS ANGELS for octet, MAGNETICFIREFLIES for band, SCHERZI MUSICALI for brass ensemble, PULSAR for solo violin, DANCING HELIX RITUALS for trio, MIDSUMMER BLAZE: ALLELUIA for chorus, THE RUB OF LOVE for chorus, and THE REWAKING for chorus, among others.
 Daniel Barenboim and Augusta Read Thomas |
October 15, 2009: Guest composer, Brandeis University.
October 14, 2009: Guest composer, Boston Conservatory.
October 13 and 15, 2009: RITUAL INCANTATIONS for cello and orchestra performed by the New Haven Symphony, William Boughton, conducting.
October 13 and 15, 2009: CAPRICIOUS ANGELS for octet performed by Ensemble Dal Niente, Michael Lewanski, conducting.
October 13, 2009: Guest composer, Boston University School of Music.
October 9, 2009: CANTOS FOR SLAVA for cello and piano will be played by Syzygy in Houston, Texas, Norman Fischer, cello and Jeanne Fischer, piano. This work is dedicated with admiration and gratitude to Frances Richard of ASCAP, Matt Haimovitz and Geoffrey Burleson. This work was commissioned by The A.S.C.A.P. Foundation.
October 7-13, 2009: Composer in Residence, New Haven Symphony.
September 9, 2009: Several chamber works will be performed on a BBC Proms Composer Portrait concert. This concert will also be broadcast on BBC Radio 3. This concert takes place just before that evening's Prom. Augusta, in conversation with Andrew McGregor, will be discussing her new violin concerto, and introducing European premieres of ...A CIRCLE AROUND THE SUN... for piano trio, INVOCATIONS for string quartet, and PASSION PRAYERS for cello and ensemble.
September 9, 2009: VIOLIN CONCERTO #3, UK Premiere at the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jiri Belohlavek, Jennifer Koh, soloist.
September 6, 2009: World premiere of CAPRICIOUS ANGELS for 8 players (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, 3 violins and 1 viola) premiered by Music from Angel Fire. Commissioned by and dedicated to Music from Angel Fire and Ida Kavafian, with the support of the Bruce E. Howden, Jr., American Composers Project and Friends of the Festival.
August 25, 2009: Cory Tiffin performing DIAGONALS for solo clarinet at The Jazz Showcase, Anaphora's Contemporary Series Season Opener, Chicago, IL.
August 25, 2009: VIOLIN CONCERTO #3, Japan Premiere will be performed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra with Mr. Eiichi Chijiiwa as the soloist, under the baton of Maestro Ryusuke Suzuki at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Special thanks to Yasuhiro Kakigahara of Tokyo Concerts, Inc.
August 21 - September 6, 2009: Music from Angel Fire 26th season. Augusta Read Thomas is the Festival's 2009 American Composer-in-Residence. Concerts take place in Angel Fire, Taos, Raton and Las Vegas.
August 29: CANTOS FOR SLAVA for cello and piano
September 3: RUMI SETTINGS for violin and viola
September 5: ...A CIRCLE AROUND THE SUN... for piano trio
September 6: World premiere of CAPRICIOUS ANGELS for 8 players
 Augusta Read Thomas with Frank Peter Zimmermann after the rehearsal for the world premiere of VIOLIN CONCERTO #3, in Paris. |
August 1, 2009: CANTOS FOR SLAVA for cello and piano will be played by Norman Fischer, cello and Jeanne Fischer, piano at 6pm prelude in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood.
July 30- August 12, 2009: Tangelwood Music Center, Composition Teacher and Director of the Festival of Contemporary Music.
July 19, 2009: CANTOS FOR SLAVA for cello and piano will be played by Norman Fischer, cello and Jeanne Fischer, piano at the Saint-Gaudens Summer Concert Series in New Hampshire.
May 23, 2009: The Cleveland Orchestra, Severance Hall, Oliver Knussen, conductor. New Music Festival program to include music by Augusta Read Thomas.
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 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 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 2, 2009: ANGEL TEARS AND EARTH PRAYERS for organ and trumpet, Dornach, Switzerland.
April 25, 2009: World Premiere: BALLADE for solo piano, commissioned and premiered by pianist Dharshini Tambiah, duration 12 minutes, at Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall at 5:30 PM, New York City.
April 13, 2009: New York Premiere: TWO E.E. CUMMINGS SONGS for children's chorus, by the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Susan McMane, conductor, Alice Tully Hall, NYC.
March 23, 2009: SCAT for ensemble, performance by Dal Niente New Music, at ISU-Bloomington/Normal, Illinois, Kirsten Broberg, executive director.
March 23, 2009: US Premiere of EURYTHMY ETUDES for solo piano, Mabel Kwan, pianist, at ISU-Bloomington/Normal, Illinois.
March 9, 2009: SILENT MOON for violin and viola, played by the Walden Chamber Players, Yehonatan Berick, violin, Christof Huebner, viola, at the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City.
January 26, 2009: World Premiere of TRACES for solo piano, in Baltimore, on the series of An Die Musik, Amy Dissanayake, piano.
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.
On January 16, 2009: World premiere of VIOLIN CONCERTO NUMBER 3, co-commissioned by Festival Présences with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the BBC Proms, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brown, and the National Symphony Orchestra, with Frank-Peter Zimmermann as violin soloist, will premiere in Salle Pleyel, Paris, with Kazuchi Ono, conducting.
 Sketch of Prayer Bells by the composer. |
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Augusta Read Thomas graces the cover of American Music Center's web magazine, NewMusicBox. The article, entitled "Perfect Clarity," features an interview with the composer and Molly Sheridan at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It can be read and viewed here: www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=6471 |
Augusta Read Thomas on the cover of NewMusicBoxAugusta Read Thomas on WOSU's Blog
WOSU's blog, "Classical eNotes," has written up this year's OSU Conemporary Music Festival (April 10-11) and Augusta Read Thomas. Read and listen to the blog here: www.wosu.org/blogs/classical/?p=10581
New Music at Tanglewood: Beauty's Turn
Christopher Lyons and ...Open Source feature the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music and its director, Augusta Read Thomas, in the August 14, 2009 podcast. Click on the following link to read more, and for a link to the mp3 audio file of the podcast: www.radioopensource.org/new-music-at-tanglewood-beautys-turn/
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
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