Career
Aucoin has received commissions from such institutions as Carnegie Hall, Lyric of Chicago, the American Repertory Theater, the Peabody Essex Museum, Harvard University, National Public Radio"s This American Life, and the Metropolitan. As a young musical virtuoso, Aucoin has been compared to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, and Leonard Bernstein. Additionally, he is the youngest assistant conductor in the history of the Metropolitan.
Aucoin was born and raised in the Boston area.
He attended Harvard College, where he studied poetry, graduating summa cum laude in 2012. His mentors at Harvard included Jorie Graham and Helen Vendler.
Aucoin then received a graduate diploma from The Juilliard School, where he studied with composer Robert Beaser. Concurrently, he served as an Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan.
Between 2013 and 2015, Aucoin was the Solti Conducting Apprentice at the Chicago Symphony.
