This solo work for violin was premiered on May 12 at Mount Holyoke College and performed by Rachel Barton Pine. Duration: 5 minutes.

This piece was originally composed in 1989, with a new version created in 2002, commissioned by cellist Kate Dillingham and premiering in April 2002 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.

This piece was originally composed in 1989, with a new version created in 2002, commissioned by cellist Kate Dillingham and premiering in April 2002 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.

Incantation exhibits Augusta Read Thomas' enthusiasm for the violin. The five-minute work sings out, with beauty and grace, always with a richness and elegance. Falling loosely into an ABA form, it ends, as it were, on a question, with a major seventh hanging in the air, unresolved.

For solo violin. Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society and the BBC3 as part of New Generation Artist Works. Premiered by Ilya Gringolts on March 17, 2003 in London's Wigmore Hall.

Inspired by the poem Where Everything Is Music, each movement of Rumi Settings adheres to the meaning, perfume, and essence of the stunning Rumi text. Includes two performance scores. 9 minutes.

Inspired by the poem Where Everything Is Music, each movement of Rumi Settings adheres to the meaning, perfume, and essence of the stunning Rumi text. Includes two performance scores. 9 minutes.

Composed for the American violinist Rachel Barton Pine, Rush is a virtuosic fanfare for the instrument. 2 minutes.

Inspired by the Dante Gabriel Rossetti sonnet of the same name. In three movements: Still, Energetic, and Suspended. 7 minutes.

Inspired by the Dante Gabriel Rossetti sonnet of the same name. In three movements: Still, Energetic, and Suspended. 7 minutes.

This publication presents six of the composer's piano etudes composed over the past decade. Each etude is an homage to a composer, with Thomas finding inspiration in the music of Bartók, Berio, Boulez, Feldman, Messiaen, and Rakowski. The entire set of etudes is 17 minutes in duration.

Spring Song is a five-minute piece that celebrates the lyrical, long-line, expressive and elegant characteristics of the cello. Double-stop passages evoke a carillon of bells, all ringing in a flurry, atop a large cathedral. At times the piece is very intimate, and at other times, bold and energized.

Thomas (b. 1964) composed this four-movement work, premiered in 2003, in response to a poem by Emily Dickinson. 34 minutes.

Inspired by the concept of the serenading lover. In two colorful sections. Advanced Level.

Inspired by the concept of the serenading lover. In two colorful sections. Advanced Level.

5 works for piano. Each piece is a cross-fertilization of two differing compositional styles or genres, including movements titled Like Thelonious Monk crossed with Chopin, Like J.S. Bach crossed with BeBop, and more.