About

Tyler Duncan

is a Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist producer/composer who works out of his own studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  His credits include Carly Rae Jepsen, Vulfpeck, Lake Street Dive, the olllam, Theo Katzman, Scary Pockets, Antwaun Stanley, Darren Criss, May Erlewine, Jeremy Kittel, Rachel Mazer, Mike Ferris, Michelle Chamuel, s/he, Jason French, NOTIFY, My Dear Disco, Ella Riot, Millish, and others.

History:

In 1999 and 2000, Tyler won the All-Ireland Championship (the World Championships of Irish Music) on the uilleann pipes – and became the first American to win the All-Ireland on that instrument. In 2001, he won the All-Ireland on the bodhran – also the first American to win on this instrument. At age 15, he was featured on the EMMY award-winning Kitty Donohoe Album "This Road Tonight."  At 17, Tyler worked with an instrument maker to design a new chromatic Low Whistle, with which he became the first Low Whistle player ever to be accepted into a jazz studies major - at the University of Michigan.  That same year he recorded an album with his progressive Irish cross-over band, Millish, which went on to win two International Acoustic Music Awards.  At age 19, he recorded with the Kruziki Trans-Atlantica Quintet, on a recording that earned a Downbeat Music Award.  At 20, he composed a modern big band adaptation of  the traditional Irish song, “The May Morning Dew," which was selected to be performed live on NPR's nationally-syndicated, "Jazz Set."  During his last two years of college, he started the electronic dance-rock band My Dear Disco, later called called Ella Riot.  Upon graduation in 2008, they began touring full-time, and for the next 6 years they became a national touring act, playing many major festivals including Lollapalooza, television, and were featured artists in Seventeen, Fox Network's "Fearless Music;" and Pepsi's “Refresh” campaigns.

After ending Ella Riot and getting off the road, he built his studio in Ann Arbor started down his own producing/composing career.