Thomas L. Read, Composer

T. L. Read

Composer, Violinist, Teacher

“…a gifted and creative spirit who knows how to write for instruments!”

Thomas L. Read, DMA, composer and violinist, is Professor of Music at the University of Vermont. He has composed music for a variety of media and almost entirely on commission -- music for small ensembles, full orchestra, solo voice, chorus and musical theater. He has been a recipient of several Arts Council and University Stipends, and has won awards, grants and fellowships from organizations such as the American Federation of Teachers, the MacDowell Colony, The Charles Ives Institute, and the Johnson Composers Conference. Recent premieres include Enchorial Landscape for tuba and piano at the University of Arizona, Alcyone for narrator, chorus, accordion, marimbas, steel drums and synthesizer at the Barbican Centre, London, with subsequent performances at Harvard and Wesleyan Universities, and various movements of Piano Partita in New York City and at the Warebrook Music Festival. In February, 2004, a full concert of his music, presented in his honor by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, included the premiere of Chamber Concerto. A recording of On October Ground, performed by Philharmonica Bulgarica was released in March 2004 by ERM Media Masterworks Recordings. C.F. Peters, Tunbridge Music, Tuba Euphonium Press and the American Composers Edition publish his work.