Matthew Aucoin

Matthew Aucoin (born April 4, 1990) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and writer best known for his operas. Aucoin has been commissioned by 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. He was appointed as Los Angeles Opera’s first-ever Artist-in-Residence in 2016. He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. He is currently Visiting Professor of Composition and Conducting at Boston University. Biography Aucoin was born and raised in the Boston area. While attending Medfield High School, he was the keyboardist in an indie rock band, Elephantom. He attended Harvard College, where he studied poetry, graduating summa cum laude in 2012. His mentors at Harvard included Jorie Graham and Helen Vendler. As an undergraduate, Aucoin conducted productions of Die Fledermaus and Le Nozze di Figaro with the Dunster House Opera Society, now known as Harvard College Opera. Aucoin then received a graduate diploma from The Juilliard School, where he studied with composer Robert Beaser. Concurrently, he served as an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. Between 2013 and 2