马修-奥科恩 作曲家和指挥家

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Matthew Aucoin
Composer and Conductor | Class of 2018
Expanding the potential of vocal and orchestral music to convey emotional, dramatic, and literary meaning


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Title
Composer and Conductor
Affiliation
American Modern Opera Company / Los Angeles Opera
Location
New York, New York
Age
28 at time of award
Area of Focus
Music Performance and Composition
Website
matthewaucoin.com
American Modern Opera Company
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Published October 4, 2018
ABOUT MATTHEW'S WORK
Matthew Aucoin is a composer expanding the potential of vocal and orchestral music to convey emotional, dramatic, and literary meaning. A talented pianist, writer, and conductor in addition to a composer, Aucoin melds sound and language to create musical works that vividly communicate the nuances, ambiguities, and multiple meanings of texts in musical form.

In 2015, he premiered two original operatic works for which he wrote both the music and librettos. Crossing draws from Walt Whitman’s diary entries from his time tending wounded soldiers in the Civil War. The score adapts various modernist and neoclassical styles, intertwining lyrical passages and frenetic energy reminiscent of techno. More than narrating scenes from the life of the poet, the music and libretto together create a portrait of Whitman’s emotional conflict after an encounter with another man while also dramatizing a defining feature of his work: the inherent contradictions of the self. Aucoin’s opera for young people, Second Nature, is set in the future in a world suffering the effects of pollution and climate change. The piece engages young audiences through the topical and challenging subject matter without sacrificing musical and theatrical sophistication.

Aucoin also composes instrumental works, ranging from pieces for solo performers to compositions for chorus and orchestra, often relating and constructing sounds to articulate specific concepts or ideas. Finery Forge (2017), a piece for two pianos, is a musical representation of the process of refining metal, with g-sharp minor chords evoking crude iron ore and the pianos’ overtones corresponding to flying sparks of molten metal. Through his own works and active exploration of collaborations across artistic genres, Aucoin is quickly becoming a vital creative force in the American musical landscape.

BIOGRAPHY
Matthew Aucoin received an A.B. (2012) from Harvard University and a Graduate Diploma (2014) from the Juilliard School. His compositions have been performed at such national and international venues as Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg Landestheater, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, as well as the Spoleto Festival (Italy). He has conducted his and others’ works at the Los Angeles Opera, the American Repertory Theater, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Santa Fe Opera, among others. From 2013 to 2015, Aucoin was the Solti Conducting Apprentice at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and he is currently artist-in-residence at the Los Angeles Opera and co-artistic director of the American Modern Opera Company.



马修-奥科恩
作曲家和指挥家 | 2018级
拓展声乐和管弦乐的潜力，传达情感、戏剧和文学的意义


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标题
作曲家和指挥家
所属机构
美国现代歌剧公司/洛杉矶歌剧院
演出地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时为28岁
重点领域
音乐表演和作曲
网站
matthewaucoin.com
美国现代歌剧公司
社会
脸书
脸谱网
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发表于2018年10月4日
关于马修的作品
马修-奥科恩是一位扩大声乐和管弦乐潜力的作曲家，以传达情感、戏剧和文学的意义。除了作曲家之外，作为一个有才华的钢琴家、作家和指挥家，奥科恩将声音和语言融为一体，创造出音乐作品，以音乐形式生动地传达文本的细微差别、模糊性和多重含义。

2015年，他首演了两部原创歌剧作品，他为这些作品写了音乐和歌词。穿越》取材于沃尔特-惠特曼在南北战争中照顾伤兵时的日记。乐谱采用了各种现代主义和新古典主义风格，将抒情段落和狂热的能量交织在一起，让人想起电子乐。与其说是叙述诗人的生活场景，不如说是音乐和歌词共同创造了惠特曼与另一个男人相遇后的情感冲突，同时也戏剧化地表现了他作品的一个决定性特点：自我的内在矛盾。奥科恩为年轻人创作的歌剧《第二自然》的背景是在未来，一个遭受污染和气候变化影响的世界。这部作品通过具有现实意义和挑战性的主题吸引了年轻观众，同时也没有牺牲音乐和戏剧的复杂性。

奥科恩还创作器乐作品，从独奏作品到为合唱团和管弦乐队创作的作品，经常联系和构建声音来表达特定的概念或想法。Finery Forge》（2017年）是一首为两架钢琴创作的作品，在音乐上表现了金属的提炼过程，g-sharp小调和弦让人联想到粗糙的铁矿石，而钢琴的泛音则对应于熔化金属的飞溅火花。通过他自己的作品和对跨艺术流派合作的积极探索，奥科恩正在迅速成为美国音乐领域的一支重要的创作力量。

个人简历
马修-奥科恩获得了哈佛大学的学士学位（2012年）和朱利亚德学院的研究生文凭（2014年）。他的作品曾在卡内基音乐厅、萨尔茨堡大剧院、布鲁克林音乐学院以及斯波莱托音乐节（意大利）等国内和国际场所演出。他曾在洛杉矶歌剧院、美国话剧团、芝加哥抒情歌剧院、洛杉矶室内乐团和圣达菲歌剧院等地指挥他和其他人的作品。2013年至2015年，奥科恩是芝加哥交响乐团的索尔蒂指挥学徒，目前他是洛杉矶歌剧院的驻场艺术家和美国现代歌剧公司的联合艺术总监。