Tucker Johnson is a composer, performer, and educator pursuing the Ph.D. in Music Composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. His musical practice includes works for soloists, ensembles, and electronic media, including pieces designed for indoor and outdoor installation. He seeks to create highly organized systems to build connections between philosophy, design, and personal experience. Many of his works commune with music from other times and places, establishing links and references to histories of musical culture. Experiences reading, hiking, and amateur botanizing can be found intertwined in his work, alongside a passion for open-source software and teaching. Tucker’s music has been concertized and honored at festivals and events, including the Dot-The-Line new music festival (Seoul), Longy Divergent Studio (Boston), soundSCAPE Festival (Cesena), Composing in the Wilderness (Prince William Sound & NYC), Shastra Rhythm Workshop (New Jersey), and the Penn State New Music Festival (State College). Other honors include the Belle S. Gitelman Prize, Marjorie Jane Brewster Memorial Music Scholarship, Peter T. Luckie Award, and Warren Benson Scholarship.
He holds the MA and Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and the BM from Penn State University. He has studied with Robert Morris, Elizabeth Ogonek, Matthew Barber, David Liptak, Baljinder Sekhon, Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice, Paul Reller, and Susanna Hancock.