Matthew Aucoin

Composer Matthew Aucoin received commissions from and had his works performed at major U.S. opera houses while he was still in his 20s. He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2018. Aucoin (oh-COIN) was born in Boston in 1990. His father was the drama critic of the Boston Globe. He attended Medfield High School, where he played in an alternative rock band called Elephantom. Aucoin attended Harvard, studying poetry with Jorie Graham and graduating summa cum laude in 2012. Switching to music (he had already conducted opera productions as an undergraduate), he went on t...