About
Residency Dates
  • May 2015 – May 2015
Region
USA

The music
of David Evan Thomas has been praised for its eloquence, power and craft. A
recipient of an Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
two McKnight Foundation Fellowships (2013, 1992) and the Möller-A.G.O. Award in
Choral Composition, Thomas has received commissions from the Minnesota
Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, The Schubert Club, the American
Composers Forum and the American Guild of Organists.  He has twice been a
resident artist at both Wyoming’s Ucross and Brush Creek Arts Foundations.

Thomas’s
music is published by ECS, Augsburg Fortress, MorningStar, Jeanné, Fatrock Ink
and Classical Vocal Reprints, receiving performances by the Minnesota
Orchestra, London’s Westminster Cathedral Choir and the trio of Gil Shaham,
Truls Mørk and Yefim Bronfman. Thomas has served as composer-in-residence with
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Minneapolis), the Cathedral of Saint Paul, and
from 1997-2005, The Schubert Club.

Born in
Rochester, New York in 1958, David Evan Thomas received degrees from
Northwestern University, Eastman School of Music and the University of
Minnesota.  His teachers included Dominick Argento, Samuel Adler and Alan
Stout, with further study at the Aspen Festival and with David Diamond at the
Atlantic Center for the Arts. 

Thomas lives in
Minneapolis, where he is also active as a program annotator, choral singer and
pianist. More: www.davidevanthomas.com.
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