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Biography
Duncan Tuomi (b. 1994) is a choral conductor and award-winning composer based in Los Angeles, California. He currently serves as Assistant Director of the Pasadena-based choir Artes Vocales and teaches undergraduate music theory and aural skills at the University of Southern California: Thornton School of Music, where he is in the final stages of completing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral music, and where he completed his Master of Music degree in the same field. In addition to choral music, he studied composition with Dr. Frank Ticheli and Dr. Chris Rozé. He also holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Music Education from St. Olaf College, where he studied under Dr. Anton Armstrong and Dr. Christopher Aspaas, among many others.
As a composer, Tuomi was the winner of the 2023 American Prize in composition in the “Short Choral Works” category, college and university division, as well as the 2021 American Choral Director’s Association’s Raymond W. Brock Memorial Student Composition Competition. He was a composition fellow in Choral Arts Initiative’s summer 2022 PREMIERE|Project. Tuomi has had works premiered by Choral Arts Initiative, the USC Thornton Chamber Singers and University Chorus, the Long Beach Youth Chorus, the University of Portland Chamber Singers, and the Pacific University Chamber Singers. He has received commissions from the Long Beach Youth Chorus and was commissioned to compose for the 10th annual Brothers, Sing On! Tenor/Bass Choir Festival in 2018.