Spotlight

Darian Donovan Thomas

Darian Donovan Thomas is a Brooklyn based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and interdisciplinary artist. He is interested in combining genres into a singular vocabulary that can express ideas about intersectionality (of medium and identity). Necessarily, he is interested in redacting all barriers to entry that have existed at the gates of any genre – this vocabulary of multiplicity will be intersectional, and therefore all-inclusive. He has received a Bachelors in Music Composition from The University of the Incarnate Word, and was a 2018 New Amsterdam Composer Lab Fellow, 2018 SoSI Composer Fellow, and 2019 Banglewood Composition Fellow. He is currently touring with Moses Sumney and Balùn.

His new work, Worry Stone (2021) for harp and string quintet, will be premiered at the Fred Fox School of Music on Wednesday, November 3rd at 7:00 pm in Holsclaw Hall.

For more information, please visit his website and explore his work on YouTube!