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David Evan Thomas

b. 1958 Composer of "THE GIFT" in Break Forth in Joyous Song 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 been a resident artist at both Wyoming’s Ucross and Brush Creek Arts Foundations, and at California’s Villa Montalvo. Recent awards include a Martin Luther Hymn Prize, a Minnesota Sinfonia/McKnight Foundation New Works Award and the Renée B. Fisher Composer Award for 2017. Thomas’s music is published by ECS, Augsburg Fortress, MorningStar, Jeanné, Fatrock Ink and Classical Vocal Reprints, and has received 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. In 2016 Thomas was awarded the “An die Musik Award” from that organization for outstanding service. 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. David Evan Thomas

L. A. Robertson

Author of "The Lord has been gracious to me"

B. Smith

Person Name: Smith Composer of "[Lord, Thou art become gracious unto Thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob]" in The Sunday-School Hymnal and Service Book (Ed. A)

C. Eliott

Author of "This gracious promise, Lord, fulfill"

Nathan B. Sprague

Composer of "[Oh, taste and see how gracious the Lord is]" in AGO Founders Hymnal A Founder of the American Guild of Organists, Sprague was a Harvard graduate (early 1890s). His comic glee for men's voices, "The Catastrophe", was included in The New Harvard Song Book, 1892. According to an article in the Narragansett Times of July 20, 1894, "Sprague was to pursue musical studies in Paris." He was organist of Grace Church, Providence, RI, where, in February, 1898, his cantata, The Vision of the Throne, was premiered. The rector's son, William Chauncy Langdon, wrote the text. (source: AGO Founders Hymnal)

Charles Haynes

Person Name: Chas. Haynes Author of "The Lord is Good and Gracious" in The Star of Hope

Chipp

Composer of "[Lord, Thou art become gracious unto Thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob]" in The Sunday-School Hymnal and Service Book (Ed. A)