JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

Tom is often compared to Keith Jarrett. His concerts to date have been performed to wide audiences at venues such as Abbey Road Studios London, BBC Radio Centre, Hackney Empire, BBC Maida Vale Studios, Ronnie Scotts, The Horcynus Festival, Sicily and the Dubai Film Festival. His latest piano concerts have seen him play in London, at The Cheltenham Festival, Germany, Spain and Italy. As a composer Tom has composed the soundtrack for numerous award winning films working with Iraqi directors Haider Rashid and Koutaba Al-Janabi. On ‘Leaving Bagdad’, which won Best Independent Film at the Raindance festival, Tom collaborated closely with Kurdish Iraqi singer and Freedom Fighter, Nawroz Orami.

Tangled Up In Blue‘ (2009) – ‘Leaving Bagdad‘ (2010) – ‘Silence, All Roads Lead to Music‘ ( 2012) – ‘Sta Per Pevoire‘ (2014) – ‘The Deep’ (2015) – ‘Stories of a passer through‘ (2017). 

As a music educator he has a revolutionary approach to teaching classical, jazz and popular harmony on piano. In 2011, he established The London Contemporary School of Piano, with the backing of many early adopters of his piano teaching methods. Widely featured across the BBC, SKY and print media Tom has fast established himself in interview and performance as a leading authority on improvisation and composition. In the Spring of 2022 he will present an edition of BBC Radio 3 Inside Music. 

 

 

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche