Thomas Snow is a pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

, bandleader

Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....

, composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, and educator from New England

New England

New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...

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Biography

Tom Snow is a graduate from the New England Conservatory of Music

New England Conservatory of Music

The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, is the oldest independent school of music in the United States.The conservatory is home each year to 750 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies along with 1400 more in its Preparatory School as well as the School of...

 (M.M. 2005) and the Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

 (B.M. 1991). Tom has studied improvisation and piano with Danilo Pérez

Danilo Pérez

Danilo Pérez is a Panamanian pianist and composer.-Early life:Danilo Pérez was born in Panama in 1965. He is considered one of the finest contemporary pianists and jazz composers of our era....

, Michael Cain

Michael Cain

Michael Cain is a pianist and composer.- Biography :Michael Cain first started playing the piano at the age of four and was quickly improvising and composing...

, and Jerry Bergonzi

Jerry Bergonzi

Jerry Bergonzi is a jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and educator. Bergonzi received a B.A. Degree in Music Education from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and is the founder of Not Fat Records....

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Tom has played with many jazz musicians including Dave Holland

Dave Holland

Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....

, Ken Peplowski

Ken Peplowski

Ken Peplowski is a jazz clarinetist born in Cleveland, Ohio, known primarily for playing in the swing music idiom. He is sometimes compared to Benny Goodman in terms of tone and virtuosity...

, Greg Abate

Greg Abate

Greg Abate is a Jazz saxophonist, flautist, composer, and arranger. He grew up in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. In the fifth grade he began to play clarinet....

, Bruce Gertz, Larry Coryell

Larry Coryell

Larry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist.-Biography:Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands The Jailers, The Rumblers, The Royals, and The Flames. He also played with The Checkers from nearby...

, Nick Brignola

Nick Brignola

-Biography:He was born on July 17, 1936 in Troy, New York. Nick was born into a musical family in which his father played the tuba and his uncle played the banjo. As a mostly self-taught musician, he developed his facility on all of his instruments using unconventional techniques, which gave his...

, Phil Wilson, Mike Turk, Gray Sargent, John Lockwood

John Lockwood

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, Dick Johnson, Herb Pomeroy

Herb Pomeroy

Irving Herbert "Herb" Pomeroy, III was an influential swing and bebop jazz trumpeter and educator...

, and Les DeMerle.

His career has included both traveling throughout Australia

Australia

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 and the United States

United States

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 with Irish tenor John McNally and long-term engagements at the Ritz-Carlton Resort

Ritz-Carlton

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 in Amelia Island, Florida, The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel

The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel

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, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and the Mount Washington Hotel

Mount Washington Hotel

The Mount Washington Hotel opened in 1902 near Mount Washington, in the town of Carroll, New Hampshire. The area is better known as Bretton Woods, and includes the Bretton Woods ski resort nearby. It is located at the northern end of Crawford Notch, east of the village of Twin Mountain, New...

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Tom Snow is also on faculty at Bates College

Bates College

Bates College is a highly selective, private liberal arts college located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. and was most recently ranked 21st in the nation in the 2011 US News Best Liberal Arts Colleges rankings. The college was founded in 1855 by abolitionists...

 and lives in Westbrook, Maine

Westbrook, Maine

Westbrook is a city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States and a suburb of Portland. The population was 17,494 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area.-History:...

with his wife and two sons.

Discography

As leader:

• Christmas at Mast Cove -Thomas Snow
• 2001 Mast Cove Galleries (MCG 100201)
• Northern Standard Time -Thomas Snow
• 1997 Invisible Music (IM2003)

As session pianist:

• Listening Post: The Ludington van Voorst Quartet, 2004
• Engine One, Ladder Twenty Four
• Dave Packard and Friends, 2002
• The Dream's On Me Carol Jackson, 2001
• Dames Rocket Kate Schrock, 2000 Kakelane 0400
• CD Sampler Vol. 1 Jim Jose, 1999 Wrench Records, WR 108
• Blues On My Back Troy Truner, 1999 Telarc, CD 83448
• Amphora Mark Kleinhaut, 1999 Invisible Music, IM 2005
• Scheme A Dream Every Sunday, 1998 Spaboop Music
• Feel The Love Motor Booty Affair, 1997
• Vegas Wig Publishing
• Jazzin' Maine Christmas 1995 Invisible Music
• Tracy Maclean and Friends Live at Crickets 1995 Malarkey Music

External links

• http://tomsnow.com/ - Tom Snow's homepage; includes upcoming performances, reviews, booking/contact information, and testimonials