Oliver Dubon (b. 1997) is a musician hailing from rural central Virginia. His compositions have been performed by musicians such as Grammy™ – Award winning pianist Nadia Shpachenko, Grammy™ – Award winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth, the Ónix Ensamble, the Kinetic Ensemble, the New England Philharmonic, the Shepherd School of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Pacific Chamber Orchestra, the Confluss Duo, the Pomona College Orchestra, and musicians of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. In 2021, Dubon was a Fulbright Student Researcher in Tallinn, Estonia where he studied composition with Toivo Tulev and orchestral conducting with Toomas Kapten. Dubon has been awarded residencies and fellowships at the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa, Estonia, the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida where he was an associate artist working under Timo Andres, and the DACAMERA Young Artists Program. His mentors in composition include composers Tyshawn Sorey, Pierre Jalbert, Toivo Tulev, Thomas Flaherty, Karl Kohn, Kurt Stallmann, as well as composer-conductor Eric Lindholm. Dubon is currently pursuing a PhD in composition at the University of Pennsylvania in the studio of Dr. Anna Weesner.
Dubon began playing the tuba in his middle school band at the age of 14, and since then has played tuba in the All-Virginia Concert Band, the University of Virginia Cavalier Symphony Orchestra, the University of Virginia New Music Ensemble, the Youth Orchestras of Central Virginia’s Youth Symphony, the Stanford Youth Orchestra, the Northwestern CBDNA Concert Band, and the Pomona College Concert Band and Orchestra. He has performed as a soloist with the Youth Orchestras of Central Virginia’s Youth Symphony as well as the Pomona College Orchestra, winning the concerto competitions hosted by both institutions.
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