Matthew Aucoin

Matthew Aucoin
Aucoin in 2021
Born (1990-04-04) April 4, 1990 (age 34)

Matthew Aucoin (born April 4, 1990) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and writer best known for his operas. Aucoin has received commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the American Repertory Theater, the Peabody Essex Museum, Harvard University, and NPR's This American Life.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] He was appointed as Los Angeles Opera's first-ever Artist-in-Residence in 2016.[8] He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.[9]

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  2. ^ Rotella, Carlo (May 27, 2015). "Matthew Aucoin, Opera's Great 25-Year-Old Hope". The New York Times. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  3. ^ Huizenga, Tom (October 4, 2018). "MacArthur Fellow Matthew Aucoin Talks Composing And Donating His 'Genius' Money". NPR. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  4. ^ Shea, Andrea (June 4, 2015). "A 25-Year-Old Opera Composer Who Does It All". Deceptive Cadence. NPR. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  5. ^ Gamerman, Ellen (July 17, 2014). "Portrait of a Prodigy: Is Matthew Aucoin the Next Leonard Bernstein?". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  6. ^ Gay, Malcolm (May 10, 2015). "Musical wunderkind Aucoin is a star in ascendancy: Composer. Poet. Conductor. There doesn't seem to be much that Medfield's Matthew Aucoin can't do". The Boston Globe. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  7. ^ Dimock, Wai Chee (June 4, 2015). "Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  8. ^ "LA Opera - Matthew Aucoin". www.laopera.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-24. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
  9. ^ Deb, Sopan (Oct 4, 2018). "MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Winners for 2018: The Full List". The New York Times. Retrieved Mar 22, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.