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

In July of 2023, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s premiered a new work by Tommy, Impro-Vice, through his participation in the DeGaetano Composition Institute where he worked closely with mentor composer Anna Clyne.  Tommy is also currently in residence with Alexandra Cade at the Winterthur Museum as a Maker-Creator Fellowship Scholar.  His collaboration with Alexandra, The Winterthur Suite, is featured in the Transformations: Contemporary Artists at Winterthur Exhibit from June 2024 through January 2025.  

Over the past several years, Tommy’s music has been performed by the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, the Modern Violin Ensemble (MoVE), Alarm Will Sound, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra, Kinetic 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. 

As a violinist, Tommy has served as Acting Section Violin with the San Diego Symphony and has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bozeman Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Thornton Edge, and Wild Up in Los Angeles, CA and Kinetic Ensemble in Houston, TX.

In 2019 he completed his DMA in composition at the USC Thornton School of Music where he studied privately with Andrew Norman and Sean Friar.  Tommy received his Master of Music degree in composition from Rice University’s Shepherd School of music and his Bachelor’s degrees in both composition and violin performance from the Eastman School of Music.  

Throughout his compositional studies, Tommy has worked privately with Karim Al-Zand, Arthur Gottschalk, David Liptak, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Bob Morris, Leonardo Balada, and Efrain Amaya.  His primary violin teachers include Lina Bahn, Ayano Ninomiya, Lynn Blakeslee, and Hong-Guang Jia.  

You can visit Tommy's website here: 

https://tsdoughertycomposer.com/

Juno-Nominated Composer, Pianist and Conductor based in Toronto, Canada.
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The music of Riho Esko Maimets (b. 1988) has been described as "enchantingly beautiful" and having a "unique emotional and communicative impact". Through his music, Riho, who has also worked as a church organist, seeks to provide spiritual nourishment to the listener. He is enjoying increasing exposure in North America and Europe with over 50 public performances of his music in 7 countries in the past year alone. 

In April 2012 he won the Villiers Quartet Competition in the UK, based on an audience vote, for Sanctus, his five-movement string quartet. Sanctus has subsequently received several performances by various ensembles in Canada and Estonia and will be recorded and released by the Villiers Quartet in the summer of 2013. Sanctus has also received several performances in Canada by the Ton Beau Quartet and in Estonia in November 2012 by the Insomnia String Quartet on their debut tour.

In 2011 Riho was awarded the highSCORE Prize in Pavia, Italy and the Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music for iil, a work for 2 flutes, cello and piano. Riho was also selected as one of four Canadian composers under the age of 35 to take part in the Génération 2012 project, for which he composed Beatitude for violin soloist Véronique Mathieu and the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, which was toured in 8 cities across Canada in November 2012. Beatitude also received the Audience Choice Award.

Riho has composed a significant amount of choral music that has been performed by groups in Estonia, such as the Tartu Academic Women's Choir, the Tallinn Chamber Choir and the vocal ensemble Heinavanker ("Haywain"). He was also commissioned to write a work for chamber choir and percussion quartet, to be performed by the Larkin Singers and the TorQ Percussion Quartet in Toronto in April 2013.

Riho’s music for guitar has lately been garnering increased recognition, including the inclusion of his solo guitar piece Aftermath as the title track of a CD released in Italy in 2012. His guitar duo Prayer of Quiet was toured throughout Estonia in late 2011 and most recently, he received a commission from the Free Library of Philadelphia for a work for guitar and string quartet to celebrate the novel The Buddha in the Attic by award-winning Japanese-American author Julie Otsuka, within the framework of the One Book One City project.

Riho has also written music for young performers, including Threshing Game, a piece for violin and piano, commissioned by the Noor Muusik „Young Musician“ 2011 as compulsory repertoire for violinists under the age of 10.

Master classes and private meetings with established composers have played an important role in Riho’s professional development. These composers include Arvo Pärt, Giya Kancheli, Krzysztof Penderecki, Louis Andriessen, Matthias Pintscher, Steven Stucky and Anders Hillborg.

Riho was born in Toronto, Canada and started composing while enrolled in the Claude Watson Arts Program at Earl Haig Secondary School at the age of 15, under the instruction of Alan Torok. He completed undergraduate studies in composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, Estonia, as a pupil of Helena Tulve and René Eespere, while enhancing his connection to his Estonian heritage. He recently completed his Master's degree at the University of Toronto under Christos Hatzis, where he was the recipient of an Ontario Graduate Scholarship and the prestigious Tecumseh Sherman Rogers Graduating Award. Riho is currently studying as a professional diploma student at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, with David Ludwig.


Justin Ward Weber is a composer and pianist based out of Brooklyn, New York. Click on the YouTube link below to see his music scored to film, concert/art music and more!

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The music of Riho Esko Maimets (b. 1988) has been described as "enchantingly beautiful" and having a "unique emotional and communicative impact". Through his music, Riho, who has also worked as a church organist, seeks to provide spiritual nourishment to the listener. He is enjoying increasing exposure in North America and Europe with over 50 public performances of his music in 7 countries in the past year alone.

Riho is currently studying composition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with David Ludwig and Richard Danielpour. He completed his Bachelor's degree at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre under the tutelage of Helena Tulve and René Eespere and continued his studies at the University of Toronto with Christos Hatzis.

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