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Tommy and Chris Theofanidis at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s 2025 performance of Chris’ Rainbow Body
2025 Roots in the Sky Composition Program Concert
The 2025 Cabrillo Festival Orchestra First Violin Section
Leigha Amick and Tommy Dougherty at the Cabrillo Festival In the Works concert.
Sarah Shellman, Robyn Julyan, Tommy Dougherty, and Margeaux Maloney at the Cabrillo Festival In the Works concert.
Sam Wu, Tommy Dougherty, Cristian Marcelaru, and Ethan Soledad at the Cabrillo Festival In the Works concert.
The six 2025 Copland House Cultivate Fellows: Ryan Lindveit, Xavier Musik, Geli Li, Leigha Amick, Rolando Gomez, and Tommy Dougherty.
Tommy at the premiere of “The Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say,” performed by Copland House Ensemble at CUNY.
Tommy and Sean Shepherd at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s performance of “Sprout.”
The West Coast premiere of “Extraordinary Instruments” at LA Hear Now, performed by Sarah Thornblade, Mona Tian,   Sara Parkins, and Adrianne Pope.
Bozeman Symphony Orchestra violinist Jihye Sung, Music Director Norman Huynh, and Tommy on a BSO family concert.
Tommy and PSO violinist Ellen Chen-Livingston at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s 2024 season opening weekend.
Tommy in front of Horton Cottage at the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, his creative getaway/happy place!
Sunset at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony
Temecula, CA
The 2024 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Orchestra
The fabulous First Violin Section of the 2024 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Tommy with Karim Al-Zand, his private composition teacher at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, reunited at the Cabrillo Festival
Tommy with composers Vivian Fung and Nina Young
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra and composer Nina Young
Eastman School of Music reunion at the Cabrillo Festival: Tommy, Andrea Velasquez, Kasumi Leonard, Una O’Riordan, Emelyn Bashour, Norbert Lewandowski, and Justin Benavidez
Shepherd School of Music reunion at the Cabrillo Festival: Tommy, Sonja Bosca-Harasim, Pierre Jalbert, Julia Jalbert, Sean Krissman
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra presenting Star Wars The Force Awakens in concert (2024)
Evan Antes, Allie Lee, and Tommy at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Star Wars The Force Awakens in concert
Michael Turkell, Margeaux Maloney, Krys Newman, Tommy, and David Newman at the San Diego Symphony’s 2024 Summer John Williams concert
Tommy and Alexandra Cade at the June 2024 Opening of the Transformations: Contemporary Artists at Winterthur Exhibit
Alexandra Cade and Tommy with The Winterthur Suite
Catharine Dann Roeber, Transformations Exhibit Curator, and Tommy with The Winterthur Suite
Tommy and the Winterthur Suite
The Makers and Creators of the Transformations: Contemporary Artists at Winterthur Exhibit
Tommy and Alexandra Deutsch, Director of Collections at Winterthur, with The Winterthur Suite
Tommy and Alexandra Cade at the June 2024 Opening of the Transformations: Contemporary Artists at Winterthur Exhibit
Tommy and the Winterthur Suite
Julie Clement, Tommy, Jackie Killian, Assistant Director of Academic Programs at Winterthur, and Alexandra Cade at the Opening Weekend of Transformations
Bozeman Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Carrie Krause, Guest Conductor Chelsea Gallo, and Tommy serving as Guest Principal Second Violin after an April 2024 BSO
performance
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra March 2024 program featuring violinist Hilary Hahn
Tommy at the premiere of The Handbag Aria, November 7, 2023, California Festival, PC Shea Perry
The Artonic String Quartet at the premiere of The Handbag Aria, PC Shea Perry
Soprano Tasha Koontz at the premiere of The Handbag Aria, PC Shea Perry
Violinists Andrea Jarrett, Tommy Dougherty, Benjamin Hoffman, Marlyse Thayer, concertmaster Jeff Thayer, Aloysia Friedmann, Nicole Sauder, and Sarah Schwartz after the San Diego Symphony’s October 13, 2023 performance at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall stage snapshot
Tommy posing with the SDSO tour poster outside Carnegie Hall
Tommy performing with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra on their 2023 Coast to Coast Tour
Mentor Composer Anna Clyne with Tommy after the premiere of Impro-Vice, July 25, 2023
Bows at the premiere of Impro-Vice with conductor Brad Lubman, concertmaster Krista Bennion Feeney, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the DiMenna Center
July 25, 2023
Conductor Brad Lubman with Tommy after the premiere of Impro-Vice
July 25, 2023
Poet and violinist Giancarlo Latta’s poem Fingerprint was a point of inspiration for Tommy’s new work Impro-Vice.
July 25, 2023
Tommy Dougherty, Carlos Bandera, and Molly Herron, the three 2023 DeGaetano Institute Composers, at the dress rehearsal of their premieres with Orchestra of St. Luke’s
DeGaetano composers with ASCAP’s
Cia Toscanini, July 25, 2023
2023 DeGaetano Composers in rehearsal with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, July 2023, Photo Credit: Nicholas V Hall
Bows at the Sounds of Johnstown premiere with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, May 6, 2023
Johnstown Symphony Music Director James Blachly, Executive Director Erin Codey, and Tommy at the premiere of Sounds of Johnstown, May 6, 2023
USC Thornton School of Music Newman Recital Hall, Premiere of Gross Misconduct with Thornton Edge conducted by Joe Pereira and featuring soloists Lina Bahn, Jonah Sirota, Ben Fried, and Ryan Baird, October 4, 2022
Tommy Dougherty and Alexandra Cade at the Winterthur Museum for their ongoing Maker-Creator Fellowship, September 2022
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra Music Director James Blachly and Tommy in front of the Chambersburg hammer at the Center for Metal Arts, discussing the Sounds of Johnstown Commission, September 2022
EarShot Readings at the Dimenna Center in NYC with American Composers Orchestra, June 2022
Tommy Dougherty, Julian Maddox (violins), Esther Nahm (viola) and Eleanor Lee (cello) performing an all Beethoven program for Cleveland Candlelight at the Great Lakes Science Center, June 2021
Modern Violin Ensemble (MoVE) in rehearsal before the premiere of Extraordinary Instruments at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center April 12, 2018
Composers Evan Chambers, Jessica Meyer, and Tommy Dougherty with violinists Carolyn Stuart, Janet Sung, Livia Sohn, and Lina Bahn of Modern Violin Ensemble (MoVE) who just premiered six new works at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center April 12, 2018
Chang He, concertmaster of the USC Thornton Symphony Orchestra, and Tommy after the world premiere of Restrung February 23, 2018, Bovard Auditorium
USC Thornton School Symphony Orchestra dress rehearsal for the premiere of Restrung February 23, 2018
Playing an all John Williams concert with the man himself conducting!
Copley Symphony Hall, January 30, 2018
Rice University, 2016. Photo credit: Alice Hong
Tommy in rehearsal with Alan Pierson and Alarm Will Sound at the 2015 Mizzou International Composers Festival
Composers Tommy Dougherty, Katie Balch, Ross Griffey, and Riho Maimets at the Fontainebleau American Conservatory, Summer 2014
Tommy conducting the premiere of More Than Miniatures with fellow Da Camera Young Artists Titus Underwood (oboe), Sean Krissman (clarinet), Yvonne Chen (piano) and Brandon Bell (percussion). A Little Day Music Series, Houston, TX 2014
Tommy performing at Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas as a Da Camera Young Artist
Tommy and Ayano Ninomiya, his violin teacher at the Eastman School of Music. 2013
Photo Credit: Kate Lemmon
Daniel Pesca (piano), Ben Fried (cello), and Tommy Dougherty (violin) performing Ricardo Zohn Muldoon’s Jácaras in Kilbourn Hall, February 2013.
Photo Credit: Nadine Sherman
Tommy and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, his composition teacher at the Eastman School of Music. 2013
Composers Chris Castro, Adam Plantz, Anthony Duarte, and Tommy Dougherty with Samuel Adler at the Freie Universitat Berlin composition course. Berlin, 2011