Selected Events

2019

JANUARY 10 & 11, 2019
Guest Composer with the Navy Band for rehearsals and events related to World Premiere of wind ensemble version of PRISMS OF LIGHT, HEMKE CONCERTO originally composed for saxophone and orchestra. Taimur Sullivan, Saxophone and the Navy Band

JANUARY 11, 2019
World Premiere of wind ensemble version of PRISMS OF LIGHT, HEMKE CONCERTO originally composed for saxophone and orchestra. Taimur Sullivan, Saxophone and the Navy Band, conducted by Captain Kenneth Collins, commanding officer and music director, present this premiere at the International Saxophone Symposium at George Mason University's Center for the Arts Concert Hall in Fairfax, Virginia.

JANUARY 12, 2019
OF PARADISE AND LIGHT for orchestra and PRAYER AND CELEBRATION for orchestra performed by the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, Chad Hutchinson, conductor at the Mills Concert Hall, Madison, WI

JANUARY 23, 2019
Discussion and Performance with Martha Nussbaum at University of Chicago Law School. Spektral Quartet will perform CHI for String Quartet; Augusta and Martha Nussbaum will share a discussion. Organized by André J. Washington JD Candidate, 2019

JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 2, 2019
Guest Composer at the Eastman School of Music.

FEBRUARY 1, 2019
BRIO for orchestra performed at the Eastman School of Music Philharmonia Orchestra, Brad Lubman, conducting.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019
World Premiere of the soprano saxophone version of DANCING HELIX RITUALS performed by Erik Rohde, violin, Paul Bro soprano saxophone, Martha Krasnican, piano in Boyce Recital Hall, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019
EUTERPE’S CAPRICE for solo flute presented by MUSICA, performed Kayla Faurie, flute, in the CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM, Houston, Texas

FEBRUARY 8, 2019
PILGRIM SOUL in New York City at Mis-En Place performed by Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon solo and Isidora Nojkovic and Thea Miserow playing cellos.

FEBRUARY 8 & 9, 2019
THE REWAKING for choir performed by Constellation Men's Ensemble at Guarneri Hall in Chicago, Illinois

FEBRUARY 10, 2019
OF PARADISE AND LIGHT for orchestra performed by Springfield Symphony, Kevin Rhodes, conductor in the Minnechaug Regional High School Auditorium, Wilbraham, MA

FEBRUARY 11, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. Old Dominion University’s Diehn Center for the Performing Arts

FEBRUARY 15, 2019
MAGNETICFIREFLIES for band performed with Dr. Jack Delaney, conducting the Southern Methodist University Wind Ensemble.

FEBRUARY 17, 2019
Premiere of ACROBATS in the version for soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, violin, cello, and piano premiered by The Zafa Collective and ~Nois at the Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL. Brandon Quarles, soprano saxophone, Jordan Lulloff, tenor saxophone, Hannah Christiansen, violin, Audrey Q Snyder, cello, Christopher Narloch, piano.

FEBRUARY 19, 2019
OF PARADISE AND LIGHT for string orchestra and PRAYER AND CELEBRATION for orchestra performed by The University of Wisconsin- Madison Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chad Hutchinson.

FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Guest composer at The University of Wisconsin-Madison.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019
PRAYER AND CELEBRATION for orchestra as performed by the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Kevin Rhodes, conducting.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019
U.K. PREMIERE of CHI for string quartet performed by the Ligeti Quartet at the University of Lincoln.

FEBRUARY 22-24, 2019
THE REWAKING for choir performed by The Esoterics, Eric Banks, Composer and Conductor and Founding Director, in Seattle WA.

FEBRUARY 23, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. Virginia Commonwealth University’s W.E. Singleton Center of the Performing Arts

FEBRUARY 23, 2019
OF PARADISE AND LIGHT for orchestra performed by Springfield Symphony, Kevin Rhodes, conductor performed at Symphony Hall, Springfield, MA

FEBRUARY 24, 2019
CHI for string quartet performed by the Ligeti Quartet at the London Festival of American Music.

FEBRUARY 27, 2019
CHI for string quartet performed by the Ligeti Quartet at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, U.K.

FEBRUARY 28, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. McKendree University’s The Hett Center for the Arts

FEBRUARY 28, 2019
OF PARADISE AND LIGHT for orchestra performed by Springfield Symphony, Kevin Rhodes, conductor performed at Symphony Hall, Springfield, MA

March 2, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. Washington University in St. Louis

March 8, 2019
LAKE REFLECTING STARS WITH MOONRISE performed by the Bro-Fowler Duo - Kurt Fowler, cello, Paul Bro, alto saxophone at the North American Saxophone Alliance Region 5 Conference at Marian University in Indianapolis

March 9, 2019
New Music Decanted artists, Eric Moore, Cello, presents VENUS ENCHANTED for solo cello at Di Rosa - Viola Frey Gallery, Napa, California

March 10, 2019
EUTERPE'S CAPRICE and CAPRRICI 'HUMMINGBIRD ROMANCE' performed by Three Cities Trio: Kate Flum, flute and Katherine Schoepflin Jimoh, clarinet at Constellation in Chicago.

March 10, 2019
OF PARADISE AND LIGHT for orchestra performed by the Lakeland Civic Orchestra, Matthew C. Saunders, conductor at the Rodehorst Performing Arts Center, Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, OH

MARCH 13, 2019
New Music Decanted artists, Jenny Hunt, Flute, presents EUTERPE’S CAPRICE for solo flute at Pacific Union College, CA.

MARCH 14, 2019
The soprano saxophone version of DANCING HELIX RITUALS performed by Erik Rohde, violin, Paul Bro soprano saxophone, Martha Krasnican, piano in at the International Music and Culture Festival, Boyce Recital Hall, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana.

MARCH 16, 2019
Choreographed by Dani Cole, in collaboration with the company, dancers Mimi Rosepink, Lily Sheppard, and Riley Sullivan dance to INCANTATION for solo violin performed by Stefan Hersh on the New Work Series at the Emerging Artists Theatre at TADA Theater in the Flatiron District of NYC.

MARCH 19-23, 2019
Augusta is the 2018-2019 Composer-in-Residence at The Curtis Institute of Music. Selected works will be performed including SELENE (Moon Chariot Rituals) for percussion quartet and string quartet, CAPRICCI (Hummingbird Romance) for flute and clarinet, KLEE MUSINGS for piano trio, TWO THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PIANO, DOUBLE HELIX for two violins, SCAT for ensemble, HELIX SPIRALS for string quartet, and PLEA FOR PEACE for soprano and string quartet. Earlier in the season, the orchestra played BRIO for orchestra.

MARCH 20-24, 2019
World Premiere of RIPPLE EFFECTS for carillon in celebration of Elizabeth J.L.Davenport’s 10 years as Dean of the Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago in a new version for two players. Premiered by Joey Brink and Michael Solotke at the Bok Chapel at the Florida at the International Carillon Festival.

MARCH 22, 2019
Guest composer at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

MARCH 23, 2019
AVIAN ESCAPADES for woodwind quintet performed by 5th Wave Collective Chicago at the Hyde Park at Experimental Station, Chicago.

MARCH 23 & 24, 2019
PLEA FOR PEACE for soprano and chamber orchestra performed by the Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra with Marlissa Hudson as soprano soloists, conducted by Eliza Rubenstein at Grace First Presbyterian Church, Long Beach, CA.

MARCH 24, 2019
ANGEL TEARS AND EARTH PRAYERS (for organ and oboe) performed by Dr. Ji Hyun Woo, Organ and Dr. Sarah Hamilton, Oboe, on their organ and oboe recital at Trinity Episcopal Church, 11 Day St., Fredonia, NY.

MARCH 28-31, 2019
EOS: Goddess of the Dawn for orchestra performed by the Kansas City Symphony, Ryan McAdams, conducting, Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center, Kansas City

MARCH 31, 2019
DANCING HELIX RITUALS for trio performed by Oasi Trio - Claire Niederberger, violin, Kathryn Vetter, clarinet and Magnus Villanueva, piano - our their debut recital at Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn, NY.

April 3, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. San Francisco Performances

April 5, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. Segerstrom Center for the Arts

April 7, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. Town Hall Seattle

April 13, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. California Institute of Technology’s Beckman Auditorium

April 13, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), presented by MUSICA, Houston, Texas

April 16-26, 2019
TWO THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PIANO is a mandatory piece for finalists in the Orléans Piano Competition.

April 18, 2019
Boston Premiere of TWO THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PIANO performed by pianist Joel Fan at MIT Sounding, which is presented by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology and MIT Music and Theater Arts.

April 26, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), presented by University of Houston, Texas.

April 30, 2019
CAPRICIOUS TOCCATA for solo violin player by Clarissa Bevilacqua, New Music School, 900 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL.

May 11, 2019
RADIANT CIRCLES for orchestra performed University of BBC Symphony Orchestra, Joana Carneiro, Conducting, London.

May 17-19, 2019
!HOPE for choir performed, in the men’s chorus version, by The Esoterics, Eric Banks, Composer and Conductor and Founding Director, in Seattle WA.

May 19, 2019 (6:30 PM)
BRIO for orchestra performed by the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, Allen Tinkham Conducting, at the Chicago Symphony Center, Orchestra Hall.

May 26, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. Taiwan International Percussion Convention in Taipei, Taiwan.

May 30, 2019
Locrian Chamber Players presents TWILIGHT BUTTERFLY for soprano and piano at Riverside Church, New York City.

June 6, 2019
World Premiere of CLARA’S ASCENT for string quartet featuring cello performed by the Eurus String Quartet and presented by the Chelsea Music Festival in Steinway Hall in New York City, Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur, Artistic Directors.

June 9-13, 2019
Guest Composer Chelsea Music Festival in New York City, Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur, Artistic Directors.

June 12, 2019
World Premiere of CLARA’S ASCENT for solo cello and string orchestra performed by the Chelsea Music Festival in New York City, Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur, Artistic Directors, at The General Theological Seminary, Ken-David Masur, conducting.

June 21, 2019
KARUMI for solo flute, presented by Cleveland new music ensemble No Exit, performed by flutist Sean Gabriel. Appletree Books, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

June 26 - 29, 2019
Guest Composer at Tanglewood to celebrate the opening of Tanglewood Center for Music and Learning in late June 2019.

Conductor Ken-David Masur

June 28, 2019
World Premiere of MAGIC BOX commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Andris Nelsons, Music Director) to celebrate the opening of it’s Tanglewood Center for Music and Learning in late June 2019. Instrumentation is string quartet and percussion quartet. The work will be premiered by a mix of musicians from the BSO and the Tanglewood Fellows, conducted by Ken-David Masur

July 5, 2019
International Sejong Soloists perform the Korean Premiere of PLEA FOR PEACE in the version for flute and string orchestra, featuring Sooyun Kim on flute, at Incheon National University in Incheon, South Korea.

July 5-9, 2019
Guest Composer at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

July 7, 2019 (4 PM)
BRIO for orchestra performed at the Aspen Music Festival by the Aspen Festival Orchestra conducted by Joshua Weilerstein in Benedict Tent.

JULY 21, 2019
RIPPLE EFFECTS for carillon in celebration of Elizabeth J.L.Davenport’s 10 years as Dean of the Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago in a new version for two players. Performed by Joey Brink and Michael Solotke at the Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago.

JULY 21-23, 2019
Guest Composer with PEAK Performances at Montclair State University in New Jersey, Jedediah Wheeler, Executive Director and Martha Graham Dance Company, Janet Eiber, Artistic Director, collaborating with Troy Schumacher Choreographer, and the ICE Ensemble.

JULY 30 - August 3, 2019
Guest Composer with PEAK Performances at Montclair State University in New Jersey, Jedediah Wheeler, Executive Director and Martha Graham Dance Company, Janet Eiber, Artistic Director, collaborating with Troy Schumacher Choreographer, and the ICE Ensemble.

August 8, 2019
PLEA FOR PEACE for soprano and string quartet performed presented by Charles Ives Concert Series in Danbury, CT at the Marian Anderson Recital Hall at the Danbury Music Centre.

AUGUST 15-30, 2019
TWO THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PIANO is a mandatory piece for finalists in the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. September 2019 in Bolzano

AUGUST 26, 2019 (12:15 PM)
Musician’s Club of Women presents their “Award Winners in Concert” on which Kateri Gormley sings TWILIGHT BUTTERFLY for soprano and piano, with pianist Karina Kontorovich, at Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall.

AUGUST 26, 2019
World Premiere Recording of the chamber orchestra version of PLEA FOR PEACE for flute, oboe, trumpet and string orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conducting The All-Star Orchestra in New York City.

AUGUST 31, 2019
Shuan Hern Lee performs TWO THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PIANO in the very final round of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano.

SEPTEMBER, 5, 2019
TWILIGHT BUTTERFLY for counter tenor and piano and AMONG DAWN FLOWERS for counter tenor and piano will be performed by Anthony Roth Costanzo. YOUR KISS for tenor and piano will be performed by Nicholas Phan with pianist Adam Nielsen. Presented by Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, Nicholas Phan, Tenor and Artistic Director.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
SILENT MOON for violin and viola performed by the Con Brio Ensemble in the Church-in-the-Gardens, Forest Hills, NY.

SEPTEMBER 12-15, 2019 (15th at 2:30 PM)
AUREOLE for orchestra, Fabio Luisi conducting Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas.

SEPTEMBER 15-18, 2019
Guest Composer of Santa Fe Opera for workshop, in New York City, of the opera SWEET POTATO KICKS THE SUN.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
Timothy McAllister, saxophone and Mischa Zupko, piano perform CHANT for saxophone and piano, PianoForte Studios, Chicago.

October 1, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. Lensic Theater, Santa Fe, New Mexico

October 3, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. Teatro Camilo Torres de la Universidad de Antioquia, Antioquia Colombia

October 6, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. Sala de Conciertos Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Cundinamarca Colombia

October 8, 2019
MAGNETICFIREFLIES for band performed with Dr. Jack Delaney, conducting University of Wisconsin wind Ensemble.

October 12, 2019
BRIO for orchestra performed at the Yale University Symphony Orchestra , William Boughton, conducting.

October 13 & 14, 2019
Juror: Luciano Berio" International Composition Competition 2019 in Rome. This inaugural edition is aimed at the composition of a new piece for large symphonic orchestra to be premiered in Rome, in the 2020-21 Symphonic Season of the Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director Sir Antonio Pappano, who will also be the President of the Jury of the Competition. The other jurors are Ivan Fedele, Unsuk Chin, Tristan Murail, and Augusta Read Thomas. Prize is 20,000 Euro and premiere.

OCTOBER 21 - 25, 2019
Guest Composer at the Santa Fe Opera

October 17, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. GAIDA Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania

October 26, 2019
JUBILEE for orchestra performed by the New Conductors Orchestra, Audrey Edelstein, conductor at the Good Faith Shepherd Church, New York, NY

October 27, 2019
JUBILEE for orchestra performed by the New Conductors Orchestra, Audrey Edelstein, conductor at the Good Faith Shepherd Church, New York, NY

Nicole Paris. Photo by Elizabeth Wiseman

October 26, 2019
World Premiere of SWEET POTATO KICKS THE SUN by Santa Fe Opera. Libretto by Leslie Dunton-Downer, the opera is commissioned by a consortium of opera companies, led by Santa Fe Opera in association with San Francisco opera, that includes: • Lyric Opera Of Kansas City • Minnesota Opera • Opera Theatre of Saint Louis •San Francisco Opera • Santa Fe Opera • Sarasota Opera • Seattle Opera. This project is made possible by generous funding from the Melville Hankins Family Foundation and The Andrew Mellon Foundation.

October 29, 2019
MURMURS IN THE MIST OF MEMORY for string orchestra will be performed by the Ensemble Eins at the Ilshin Hall in Seoul, Korea.

NOVEMBER 4, 2019
SELENEfor percussion quartet and string quartet by Temple University Percussion Ensemble, Phillip O'Banion, conductor at the Temple Performing Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA

NOVEMBER 5 & 6, 2019 (7 PM)
Martha Graham Dance Company Studio Series: This popular Studio Series offers audiences a behind-the-scenes look at the work of the Company in the intimate setting of the Martha Graham Studio Theater. Learn about the creative process behind the brand-new work, THE AUDITIONS, commissioned by Montclair/Peak Performances just one week before its world premiere. The Graham dancers will perform short excerpts of the work and choreographer Troy Schumacher and Peak Performances' Executive Director Jed Wheeler will discuss the evolution of the collaboration, which includes an original score by Augusta Read Thomas.

Martha Graham

NOVEMBER 10, 2019
Jennie Oh Brown performs PLEA FOR PEACE for soprano and string quartet. This concert also celebrates the launch of her second album titled Giantess which is distributed by Innova Recordings. Constellation, Chicago.

NOVEMBER 14-17, 2019 [BUY TICKETS]
World Premiere of THE AUDITIONS, a new ballet commissioned by PEAK Performances at Montclair State University in New Jersey, Jedediah Wheeler, Executive Director. Performed by Martha Graham Dance Company, Janet Eilber, Artistic Director, Troy Schumacher Choreographer, and the ICE Ensemble, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni.

NOVEMBER 16, 2019
ABSOLUTE OCEAN for soprano and orchestra performed by the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Stilian Kirov, Music Director and Conductor, with Emily Birsan, solo soprano. Ozinga Chapel in Palos Heights, Illinois.

NOVEMBER 17, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. University of the Pacific, Stockton, California

NOVEMBER 17, 2019
OF PARADISE AND LIGHT for orchestra performed by the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, Allen Tinkham, conductor, at Orchestra Hall in Chicago

November 18, 2019 (6 PM)
The New York Public Library and The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) invite you to join an interactive live-performance exploration of The Auditions, a new ballet score by Augusta Read Thomas, commissioned by PEAK Performances at Montclair State University, and performed by Martha Graham Dance. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium, 111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY

NOVEMBER 19, 2019
HELIOS CHOROS I for orchestra performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO) Brad Lubman, conducting, in Maida Vale Studios, London

NOVEMBER 20, 2019
FETE for brass ensemble performed by University of Georgia Wind Ensemble, Brian Chaplow, conductor at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA

NOVEMBER 22, 2019
RESOUNDING EARTH Movement II (Prayer), by Third Coast Percussion. Pittsburg State University, Pittsburge, PA

NOVEMBER 22-24, 2019
EOS: Goddess of the Dawn for orchestra performed by the Phoenix Symphony, Ryan McAdams, conducting, Phoenix, Arizona

NOVEMBER 28, 2019
SELENE (Moon Chariot Rituals) for percussion quartet and string quartet and OF BEING IS A BIRD (Emily Dickinson Settings) for soprano and chamber orchestra performed by Claire Booth, Soprano, members of the Philharmonia Orchestra with Pascal Rophé conducting at the Southbank Centre in London on the Philharmonia Orchestra's 'Music of Today' series curated by Unsuk Chin.

NOVEMBER 28, 2019
Guest Composer at the Music of Today/Composers' Seminar at the Philharmonia Orchestra in London.

NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Guest Composer at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

DECEMBER 7, 2019
PRAYER BELLS for orchestra performed by The New World Symphony, Jeff Milarsky conducting, at New World Center, Miami Beach, FL.

DECEMBER 7, 2019
KLEE MUSINGS for piano trio performed by the Montage Music Society on their Altazano Salon Series.

DECEMBER 9, 2019
ANGEL TEARS AND EARTH PRAYERS for trumpet and organ and SONG WITHOUT WORDS for trumpet and piano performed by Amanda Ross, Trumpet, with pianist Liz Ames and organist Clayton Farmer at First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor in Ann Arbor, MI.

DECEMBER 10, 2019
MAGNETICFIREFLIES for band performed with Dr. James Minnix conducting the University of Massachusetts Wind Ensemble.

DECEMBER 12, 2019
Philadelphia Premiere of CLARA’S ASCENT for string quartet featuring its cellist performed by the Jasper String Quartet in Philadelphia.

DECEMBER 15, 2019
FRUIT OF MY SPIRIT for choir performed by The Esoterics, Eric Banks, Composer and Conductor and Founding Director, at Christ Episcopal Church (Tacoma), Tacoma, WA.