Current projects include a new work for the Upland Chamber Ensemble, a compendium of short organ pieces celebrating Messiaen's 100th, and a collaboration with Dutch video artist Jan Suschitzky. This coming year he will be recording the complete organ works of fellow composer and colleague Christian Asplund. He is also in the earliest stages of planning an opera with the literature and lingual scholar James Rasmussen on the subject of the antediluvian prophet Enoch.
Thornock received degrees at Indiana University and Brigham Young University. During the 2006-2007 academic year he was Visiting Assistant Professor at Southern Virginia University. He was reared in rural Washington State. He and his wife Tammy have three children.
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