Joel Thompson, best known for the choral work Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, is an artist and educator currently serving as composer-in-residence with the Houston Grand Opera.
Committed to creating spaces for healing and community through music, Thompson has collaborated with the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta and Colorado Music Festival and served as composer-in-residence at the New Haven Symphony Orchestra (2021-2023).
His opera The Snowy Day was commissioned and premiered by Houston Grand Opera in 2021. Thompson is at work on a full-length opera that Houston will premiere in spring 2027.
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