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.