Tom Gurin is the first place winner of the composition contest of the Festival de Musique Sacrée de Perpignan. His winning composition will be premiered by the festival on AprilContinue readingFestival de Musique Sacrée de Perpignan

Premiered by Jenny Maclay, Not Open is a new piece by Tom Gurin for solo clarinet. The premiere performance took place in Paris at the Fondation des États-Unis, where Tom is aContinue readingNot Open (solo clarinet)

Inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Could Mortal Lip Divine was premiered in Paris in October 2021 by Sarah Grace Graves. It reflects on the unknowable potential of words. To thisContinue readingCould Mortal Lip Divine
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he Leuven Bell and Carillon Assocation Campanae Lovanienses will perform and publish Tom Gurin’s carillon arrangement of the full Suite No. 5 in D Minor by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre in spring 2022. The arrangement received fourth prize in the International Matthias vanden Gheyn Composition Contest. … Continue readingÉlisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Campanae Lovanienses

Tom Gurin performed the inaugural recital of the new carillon at North Carolina State University on Friday, May 14, 2021, at 3:00 PM. The preceding dedication ceremony began at 2:00Continue readingNC State Belltower
Carillon Dedication

A new composition, “At Rain-Starred Windows” by Tom Gurin, has received a performance award through the Johan Franco Committee of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. In addition to publishing the work, the GCNA will premiere it at their virtual congress in June 2021 at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. … Continue readingAt Rain-Starred Windows:
Johan Franco Composition Contest

“Proverb,” a new composition by Tom Gurin, was selected by the Sonus Foundation to be premiered in concert in Budapest along with seven other new works. “Proverb” is composed forContinue readingSonus Foundation: The Past and Future of the Tárogató

“Sings Like Iron” for flute and carillon Performed by Paige Breen and Tom Gurin   …My heart has become as hard as a city street: The horses trample upon it,Continue readingSings Like Iron