Former Concentrator Receives MacArthur Grant

"Matthew Aucoin (Harvard English '12) has earned one of the most prestigious awards in the arts and sciences. Wednesday he was announced as a 2018 MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the so-called 'genius grant' from the MacArthur Foundation, which includes a $625,000 no-strings-attached purse. Aucoin, the youngest winner this year, joins 24 other Fellows, whose work spreads wide across the arts, humanities and sciences. 

 By the age of 25 he was already winning praise as a composer, conductor, pianist and writer, prompting the New York Times to dub him"opera's great hope." Crossing, his 2015 opera set to his own text and based on the diaries of Walt Whitman's work as a Civil War nurse, was celebrated as a 'taut, teeming and inspired work.'"

Read the New York Times release here.
Read the full NPR profile of Aucoin here