Tom has been playing the trumpet since the age of 8 and during his formative musical years he held the principal trumpet position in all of his local County Orchestras. Before going on to study at Music College in London he played in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for a year. He has studied with some of the country's finest trumpet teachers including John Miller and Anne McAneney while attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and subsequently with Paul Archibald.

 

Whilst studying at The Guildhall, highlights included a joint project with the Paris Conservatoire culminating in a performance of Berlioz's Grande messe de Morts and participating in the London Symphony Orchestra 'Side By Side' scheme. This gave Tom the opportunity to work with the Principal Trumpet of the LSO, Rod Franks and gain first hand access to an LSO rehearsal with Pierre Boulez.

 

Tom has broadcast for radio and television including two BBC Proms live on BBC2 and BBC Radio 3 and has performed in all of the country's major concert halls including the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Symphony Hall Birmingham, working with some of the world's leading conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Ivan Fischer.

 

Tom currently works as a freelance musician and has played with many of the regions leading orchestras including the Bath Philharmonia. He is a versatile performer, equally at home playing diverse musical styles, from Baroque Trumpet to Musicals, and large Symphonic repertoire to Jazz, having performed a major improvised trumpet solo in front of 25,000 people at the opening night of the Bath International Music Festival. Tom has performed as a soloist around the South West including a performance of Arutjunjan's Trumpet Concerto in the Assembly Rooms in Bath.

 

Also passionate about music in education, Tom teaches the trumpet and works as a Workshop Leader for his own organisation, 'Out There Music'. One of 'OUT THERE MUSIC'S' major goals is to provide musical opportunities for children from less privileged backgrounds and despite having only been recently founded; it has already begun to succeed in achieving that goal.