Curriculum vitae (français)
Tom Gurin is a composer, multimedia artist, and carillonist. He holds a master's degree in music composition and computer music from the Haute école de musique de Genève and a bachelor's degree in music from Yale University. He also holds diplomas from the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Royal Carillon School in Belgium. He studied composition privately with Allain Gaussin in Paris.
He is a previous resident at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, a Tremplin Leenaards / HEM Prize winner, a Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship recipient, a joint Fulbright-Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar, and a Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation.Tom has presented his work in cabaret shows, at art galleries such as the DOC artspace, and at contemporary music festivals such as the Archipel Festival in Geneva, IlSUONO Contemporary Music Week in Italy, and the American Conservatory program in Fontainebleau, where he received the Marion Tournon-Branley prize. In addition, he participated in the highSCORE New Music Festival in Pavia, Italy, and the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival at Mannes School of Music in New York City, where he was an Emerging Composer Fellow. The Yale Symphony Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra of China, the Sonus Foundation for New Music and Contemporary Performing Arts, and other ensembles around the world have performed his compositions.
Gurin also composes music for the carillon. He won first prize in the 2022 Perpignan (France) Carillon Composition Contest, then composed the new Angélus melodies for the Perpignan cathedral (2023), as well as a carillon composition celebrating its 700 year anniversary (2024). His carillon music is published by Beiaardcentrum Nederland and by the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America.
Gurin served as Duke University Chapel Carillonneur until summer 2021, when he accepted a Fulbright award to study in Paris. In May 2021, he performed the dedicatory recital of the new carillon at North Carolina State University—the first traditionally-made American carillon in over fifty years. He has been a professional member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America since 2017. He has performed on over one hundred carillons around the world and is a frequent guest recitalist in Europe. During his undergraduate studies in music at Yale, he was co-chair of the student-led Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs.