Acclaimed GRAMMY Award–winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and recipient of the MacArthur Foundation’s prestigious “genius grant,” Chris Thile is a multifaceted talent, described by the Guardian as "that rare being: an all-round musician who can settle into any style, from bluegrass to classical,” and hailed by NPR as a “genre-defying musical genius.” 

Thile joins The Philadelphia Orchestra in his playfully ambitious autobiographical composition entitled ATTENTION! (a narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra)—a witty chronicle that includes encounters like the time he “attempted to impress a Starbucks executive and met Carrie Fisher as a result.”