(b. 25 January 1942, Pearl River, New York – d. 13 January 2025, Seattle).

American composer of mostly chamber, vocal and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout the world.

The biography of Prof. Thome is available at this website: http://faculty.washington.edu/dthome/.

COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS

STAGE:

Night Passage (environmental-theatre work), 1973 (collaboration with Birgitta Trommler, Judith Vassallo)

ORCHESTRAL:

The Golden Messengers, large orchestra, 1985

Indra's Net, 1989

The Palaces of Memory, small orchestra, fixed media, 1993

Celestial Canopy (symphonic poem), 1999

CHAMBER MUSIC:

Polyvalence, 6 players, computer, 1972

Anaïs, cello, piano, fixed media, 1976

Sunflower Space, flute, piano, fixed media, 1978

Silver Deer, violin, piano, 1981–82

Stepping Inward, oboe (+ English horn), harp, guitar, mandolin, viola, 1986–87

Bright Air/Brilliant Fire, flute, computer, 1997

Like a Seated Swan, viola, computer, 1999

Through Amber, clarinet, fixed media, 2000

CHORAL:

Three Psalms, baritone, mixed chorus, flute, harp, violin, viola, cello, 1979

Unseen Buds, mixed chorus, computer, 1995–96

VOCAL:

Songs on Chinese Verses, soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, 3 percussion, 1979

The Yew Tree (text by Robert Strassburg), soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, harp, violin, viola, cello, piano (+ celesta), percussion, 1980

Three Sonnets by Sri Aurobindo (text by Sri Aurobindo), soprano, orchestra, 1984

Levadi (Alone), soprano, fixed media, 1985

Cassia Blossoms, soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, 1988

Lucent Flowers, soprano, small orchestra, 1988

The Ruins of the Heart, soprano, orchestra, fixed media, 1990

PIANO:

Pianismus, 1983

Ringing, Stillness, Pearl Light, piano, fixed media, 1988

ELECTROACOUSTIC:

January Variations, fixed media, 1973

Into Her Embrace: Musings on Savitri, fixed media, 1991

Angels (virtual-reality artwork), computer, 1992

Masks of Eternity, computer, 1993–94

UnfoldEntwine, computer, 1998

DISCOGRAPHY

The Yew Tree. (Crystal Records: 257, 1982) (LP)

The Ruins of the Heart. (Centaur Records: CRC 2144, 1994)

Palaces of Memory. (Centaur Records: CRC 2229, 1996)

Pianismus. (Leonarda Productions: LE 345, 1998)

Bright Air/Brilliant Fire; UnfoldEntwine; Like a Seated Swan; Unseen Buds. Sarah Bassingthwaighte, flute; Dorothy Shapiro, viola; Geoffrey Boers/University Choral (Centaur Records: CRC 2527, 2001)

Three Psalms. (Capstone Records/Society of Composers)