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        4. Augusta Read Thomas was born in Glen Cove, near New York City, in , into a musical household; she recounts a childhood overflowing with sounds, the Beatles.

          5. Augusta Read Thomas

          American composer (born )

          Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, ) is an American composer and University Professor of Composition in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, where she is also director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition.[1]

          Biography

          Thomas studied composition with Oliver Knussen at the Tanglewood Music Center; Jacob Druckman at Yale University; Alan Stout and Bill Karlins at Northwestern University; and at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

          She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College in –91 and a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University from to Thomas was the longest-serving Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, from to This residency culminated in the premiere of Astral Canticle for solo flute, solo violin, and orchestra, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music.

          During her residency, Thomas premiered nine commissioned orchestral works and help