Tom Vincent (pianist)
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Tom Vincent (born 1969, Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian jazz pianist, composer, arranger and band leader.
Early Years
- Growing up in Sydney, Tom started playing trumpet as a child and then moved to piano and composing/arranging in his teens.
- His grandmother Diana Dawes was the leading actress in Australia's first film musical. Tom's mother plays piano and his father is a jazz trumpeter/singer.
- 1988 - 1989 Tom received his Associate Diploma of Jazz Studies under the direction of Don Burrows at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with lecturers George Golla, Mike Nock and Roger Frampton.
- Tom performed regularly on the Sydney jazz scene for five years before moving to New York (1992) to live and perform for three years, studying at the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop with Manny Albam, Roger Kellaway and Jim McNeely.
Teaching, Performing, Recording
- Returning to Australia in 1995 to start a family, Tom was Jazz Piano Lecturer at the Tasmania Conservatorium and then Lecturer in Contemporary Keyboard Techniques at the Northern Rivers Conservatorium in New South Wales. At this time Elliott Dalgleish (saxophone) and Scott Tinkler (trumpet) first collaborated with Tom.
- In 1998, Marc Meader (drums) returned to Australia to perform and record with Tom. This ten year reunion established the Vincent/Meader Trio, one of Australia's most dynamic musical partnerships.
- 1999 saw the release of Tom's first CD as a leader Vincent/Meader Trio. In this year Tom completed his Bachelor of Music (hons) at the VCA in Melbourne, was active on the Australian jazz scene, invited to be part of the Wangaratta National Jazz PIano Awards and toured Queensland with John Rodger's Aboriginal Musical for the Queensland Theatre Company.
- In 2000 the Vincent/Meader Trio conducted a major tour of Australia and recorded their 2nd CD, Second Impression.
- Tom lived in Amsterdam in 2001 where he performed regularly with his trio which also toured Europe.
- Now based in Hobart, Tom performs mostly in Melbourne. He is one of Australia's leading jazz pianists, invited by ABC Classic FM to perform for their Live Broadcast series with his various groups (Trio, Quartet, Septet) and is also well known for his work composing for the ABC TV show Collectors. Tom also composes and arranges for film and television documentaries, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Tasmanian music company IHOS.
- In 2006 the Tom Vincent trio toured Tasmania for six weeks. The CD Blood Red by the Tom Vincent Trio was commissioned by ABC Classic FM's Jazz Tracks and is the first jazz recording for the program to take place in Tasmania.
Musicians collaborated with
- Drummers: Marc Meader, Ben Vanderwal, Danny Fischer, Alan Turnbull, Tony Buck
- Bass players: Matt Clohesy, Brendan Clarke, Leigh Barker, Sam Anning, Eugene Romaniuk, Rodrigo Aravena, Cameron Undy, Alex Hewetson, Bart Tarkenskeen
- Singers: Julie O'Hara, Anita Wardell, Pearly Black, Neilsen Gough, Rebecca Tilley
- Trumpet: Eamon McNelis, Scott Tinkler, Andrew McNaughton
- Saxophone: Willow Nelson, Elliott Dalgleish, Jamie Oehlers, Carlo Barbaro
- Trombone: Shannon Barnett