Thomas Limbert

Composer & Percussionist, Thomas Limbert graduated from the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA, Music & Philsophy, 1997), receiving the Thelma Thompson award for composition. He subsequently served on the percussion faculty of UNC-CH and worked as an audio engineer before starting graduate work in composition at Duke University on fellowship in 2003. He holds a MA in Composition from Duke (2006) and is currently a PhD candidate. He is active as a composer and performer in the Triangle area of NC having composed both acoustic and electronic music for Burning Coal Theater Company and Duke Theater Studies productions and performed with Duke's Encounters New Music series, Duke/UNC Milestones Festival, Peace College Chamber Singers and Mallarmé Chamber Players. Thom is also a member of pulsoptional, an active and captivating composers collective and new music ensemble based in Durham, NC In addition to playing percussion and composing for the group, Thom recorded and mixed their self-titled debut CD which was released in April, 2007. Thom's music has been performed across North America and abroad by, among others, the Duke & UNC Symphony Orchestras, Sarah Gaston and the Polish Radio Symphony "Amadeus" Strings, So Percussion, Alarm Will Sound and pulsoptional. His music is published by Studio 4 Music, Keyboard Percussion Publications and FuguFish publishing. His principal teachers have included Allen Anderson, Lynn Glassock, Stephen Jaffe, Anthony Kelley and Scott Lindroth.