Bio

Tom Morrison (b. 1992) is a composer, electronic musician, and educator. He has written for leading new music groups, including the Aizuri Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, Latitude49, Sö Percussion, Contemporaneous, Yarn/Wire, Albany Symphony’s new music chamber orchestra, Dogs of Desire, and The New Jersey Symphony, among others. Recent projects include new electroacoustic works for Theo Van Dyck and Parker Ramsay and a contribution to Han Chen’s “Ligeti Etudes meets 18 Composers” commissioning project. His work has been released on Eric Huckin’s album, Drifter, and Robert Fleitz’s album, Leaving a Room. Recently, he contributed the title track to Red Dog Ensemble’s debut album, Neon and Oak (Lexicon Classics), and was a participant in the New Jersey Symphony's Cone Institute. More recently, an evening-length set of his electoacoustic music was featured on the opening night of the Sound Atlas festival in Calgary. He won the 2016 Thailand International Composition Festival Competition and first place in the 2021 Symphonia Caritas Competition for first-generation college students. He holds an MM from Juilliard and an MFA and Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he was a postdoc and taught electronic music. He currently lectures at Montclair State University. His work can be found at tom-morrison.com.