Tommy Dougherty

Composer and violinist Tommy Dougherty (b. 1990) is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is a composer of orchestral, chamber, and solo works.

Over the past several years, Tommy’s music has been performed by the Modern Violin Ensemble (MoVE), Alarm Will Sound, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra, Kinetic: The Conductorless Ensemble, Thornton School Symphony Orchestra, Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra, and Eastman Philharmonia.

In 2019, Tommy was the recipient of the ASCAP Leo Kaplan Award, and in 2016 and 2017, two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards.

In 2018, the Modern Violin Ensemble (MoVE) premiered Extraordinary Instruments, a violin quartet that aims to bring awareness to issues of gun culture in the United States. For more information on this and other projects by MoVE, visit http://www.modernviolinensemble.com.

As a violinist, Tommy currently serves as Acting Section Violin with the San Diego Symphony, and has performed with the Pacific Symphony, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra in Los Angeles, CA and Kinetic: The Conductorless Ensemble in Houston, TX.

Tommy received his Master of Music degree in composition from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and his Bachelor’s degrees in both composition and violin performance from the Eastman School of Music.

Tommy recently completed his DMA in composition at the USC Thornton School of Music where he studied privately with Andrew Norman and Sean Friar.

You can visit Tommy's website here:

https://tsdoughertycomposer.com/

Tommy Dougherty’s tracks

• Gross Misconduct by Tommy Dougherty
• Extraordinary Instruments by Tommy Dougherty
• Restrung by Tommy Dougherty
• Giancore! by Tommy Dougherty
• Egyptian Ratscrew Fantasy by Tommy Dougherty
• Sonder by Tommy Dougherty
• Three Dances For Orchestra by Tommy Dougherty
• Quartets by Tommy Dougherty
• Kireji (1-5) by Tommy Dougherty