Guest Composer Series
The Emmy award-winning composer Joel Thompson, pianist, conductor, and educator from Atlanta, will be the guest composer of the ongoing GOOD COMPANY GUEST COMPOSER SERIES the weekend of Nov. 8-10, 2024. The concert with Joel Thompson will be Sunday, Nov. 10 at 4 pm at Lakewood Presbyterian Church.
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His largest work, Seven Last Words of the Unarmed for TTBB chorus, strings and piano, was premiered in November 2015 by the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club under the direction of Dr. Eugene Rogers.
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Recently, Thompson was a composition fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School where he worked with composers Stephen Hartke and Christopher Theofanidis. Thompson taught at Holy Innocents' Episcopal School in Atlanta from 2015 to 2017, and also served as Director of Choral Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at Andrew College from 2013 to 2015. Thompson is a proud Emory alum, graduating with a B.A. in Music in 2010, and M.M. in Choral Conducting in 2013. His teachers includen Eric Nelson, William Ransom, Laura Gordy, Richard Prior, John Anthony Lennon, Kevin Puts, Robert Aldridge, and Scott Stewart. Thompson is currently pursuing his D.M.A. in composition at the Yale School of Music.