Aura Tenebris (Radiant Darkness)

Augusta Read Thomas is one of the most critically-acclaimed and widely performed composers working in the US today. According to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she ‘has become one of the most recognizable and widely loved figures in American Music’. Thomas was the longest-serving Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony, for Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez, from 1997 through 2006. This residency culminated in the premiere of Astral Canticle, one of two finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Music. She has won the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, among many other coveted awards. Augusta is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Recent and upcoming works include commissions from the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Utah Symphony, Philharmonic de Paris, the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Martha Graham Dance Company and the Santa Fe Opera.