Author Bio

Tom Gurin

Tom Gurin is a music composer, historian, and educator. He is a laureate-resident at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris while pursuing a master's in composition at the Geneva Conservatory (Haute école de musique de Genève). He is a past Fulbright Scholar, Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar, Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellow, and a U.S. Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. Tom is an alumnus of Yale University, the École Normale de Musique de Paris “Alfred Cortot”, and the Royal Carillon School in Belgium.

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