Aucoin biography
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Aucoin biography
Matthew Aucoin
American composer (born 1990)
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| 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]
Biography
Aucoin was born and raised in the Boston area.
While attending Medfield High School,[10] Aucoin was the keyboardist in an indie rock band, Elephantom.[11] He attended Harvard College, where he studied poetry, graduating summa cum laude in 2012.
His mentors a