Tom Gurin has performed on over 100 carillons in North America and Europe. He served as Duke University Chapel Carillonneur from 2019-2021, when he accepted a Fulbright grant to study bells and composition in France. In May 2021, he performed the dedicatory recital of the new carillon at North Carolina State University—the first traditionally-made American carillon since the mid-twentieth century—after consulting on the instrument’s installation during the prior months.
He is an active carillon composer, and has won numerous awards for his contributions to the carillon repertoire, including first prize in the 2022 Perpignan (France) Carillon Composition Competition. Several of his works works have been published by the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America and in Europe by Beiaardcentrum Nederland.
Gurin graduated “With Great Distinction” from the Royal Carillon School of Belgium as a United States Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. He chaired the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs from 2017-18 and has been a member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America since 2017.
What is a Carillon?
Technical definition: a musical instrument composed of 23 or more tuned bronze bells connected to a double keyboard that allows expression through variation of touch via manual batons and foot pedals.
Concert Videos
Chaconne in F (Johann K.F. Fischer)
Fantasia on “Ite Missa Est” (P. van den Broeck)
“Gaston” from Beauty and the Beast (arr. F. Steijns)
