Skye van Duuren is a performer, composer, arranger, educator, and transcriber based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

He performs with the Lima Symphony Orchestra, teaches brass and piano lessons in the Cincinnati area, and composes music in a variety of genres and idioms. Dr. van Duuren holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, two Master of Music degrees from the University of Tennessee, and a Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, from The University of Arizona.

His principal performance teachers include Michael Mergen, Alan Siebert, Philip Collins, Vince DiMartino, Catherine Leach, Edward Reid, Moises Paiewonsky, and Abigail Pack, with additional instruction from trumpeter Carl “Doc” Severinsen and many others. Dr. van Duuren enjoys an active commission schedule as a composer and his repertoire includes over one hundred works for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instrument, keyboard, and electronic media. His teachers of composition include Andrew Sigler, Jorge Variego, Daniel Asia, Alejandro Rutty, and Mark Engebretson. His compositions have been performed in concert halls, universities, and other venues both sacred and casual in Greece, China, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Arizona, and North Carolina. In 2014 he was honored with the National Marion Richter American Composition Award and first prize in the National Emil and Ruth Beyer Composition Contest.

He is an active presenter and educator on subjects ranging from his own unique compositional innovations and theoretical writings to special performance topics, and his lecture engagements have taken him to the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, National Student Electronic Music Event, SPLICE III, and new music festivals and symposiums across the country. Dr. van Duuren is a founding member of the University of Tennessee Electroacoustic Ensemble and appears on their 2017 release, Vantablack.

In his free time, Dr. van Duuren enjoys bringing brass music to the greater Cincinnati community through the Bearcat Brass Band, an ensemble he founded to play in public spaces and schools, often accepting donations for local charities. He enjoys long bicycle rides, strumming a guitar, and playing his horn in local parks.