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 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 carillon’s installation during the prior months.
He is an active carillon composer, having won first prize in the 2022 Perpignan (France) Carillon Composition Competition and a performance and publication award through the 2021 Johan Franco Carillon Composition Contest.
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)
