The Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Jerry Hou, conductor 

Three Dances For Orchestra

Thanks for visiting. 
What's new:  Work on my violin sonata is proceeding well.  My new symphony, "Symphony for Chamber Orchestra," is posted and waiting for you.  rjb

Scores and parts for many of my works are available from my publisher Creative Spirit Music Publications. Go to  https://www.creativespiritonline.com and select "Robert John Brooks." There, you can also follow the score while listening to a recording.

My music is fully notated and is intended for live performance by live musicians.

After completing my doctorate in composition in 1979 from UNT, I took 30 years off from composing to join the computer software revolution as a software engineer.  In 2010 I began composing again and have not stopped. So, I find myself beginning (restarting?) a composition career rather late in life...but that's OK.  Most of the works posted here were written since 2010. 

Thanks for visiting.

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/

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I have been producing, shooting, and editing videos, ever since I was 12 years old. I have borrowed my style of shooting and editing from various movies and utilize them to present my short film/documentary/event work in the most professional way possible. I currently attend the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) as a Film Major and intend to pursue a career in the video production industry after I graduate.

 My musical background is varied. I started studies in music theory and violin at the age of 8. At the age of eleven, I started with  guitar. I 'm a self-taught guitarist. One year later I started in  a school to study harmony and modern piano for six years. In 2006 I moved to Madrid to study visual production and sound.

I'm part of several bands which plays different styles: Rock, pop, heavy ...

My favourite music style  is classical music and rock. I do not think that both worlds need to be exclusionary.

My musical instrument is the piano. I spend my time playing it with complete devotion.

Some samples that can be heard on SoundCloud serve to show the variety that I can cover. I give special priority to  symphonic samples.

R.A. Moulds studied music at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Le quise poner un alto a mi vida, pero creo que le queda mejor un tenor.