Thomas Piercy
He studied clarinet, voice and acting at Virginia Commonwealth University, Shenandoah Conservatory (with Dr. Stephen Johnston), Mannes College of Music and the Juilliard School.
He studied clarinet in New York City with Gervase De Peyer and noted American teachers Leon Russianoff and Kalmen Opperman.
), the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series (Chicago, Illinois), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), Wigmore Hall (London, England), Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome, Italy) and Parthenon (Tokyo, Japan).
He has performed several times at the International Clarinet Festival, the world's largest annual gathering of noted clarinetists, including a concert in memory of Russianoff in 1991, a concert of contemporary American music in Japan in 2005, an all -Ástor Piazzolla program at the 2007 International Clarinet Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and conducting and performing a tango nuevo program of music by Astor Piazzolla and a premiere by Michele Mangani at the 2016 ClarinetFest in Kansas City, USA.
A recipient of numerous scholarships, prizes and awards, he studied clarinet, voice and conducting at the Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music, Virginia Commonwealth University and Shenandoah Conservatory.
A short list of the composers he has worked with and premiered their works (many of them written for him) include Milton Babbitt, Allan Blank, Ed Bland, Wendy Mae Chambers, Elisenda Fábregas, Donal Fox, Daron Hagen, Gilbert Galindo, Masatora Goya, Jennifer Higdon, Benjamin Lees, Yuichi Matsumoto, Jun Nagao, Takeshi Ogawa, Sergey Oskolkov, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, Erin Rogers, Ned Rorem, Hifumi Shimoyama, Olav Anton Thommessen, and many others.
坂野嘉彦 Yoshihiko Banno, 大胡恵 Kei Daigo, 藤倉大 Dai Fujikura, 合屋正虎 Masatora Goya, 平井 京子 Kyoko Hirai, 平山 智 Tomo Hirayama, 細川 俊夫 Toshio Hosokawa, 一柳慧 Toshi Ichiyanagi, 井上一平 Ippei Inoue, 石井美栄子 Mieko Ishii, 清水一徹 Shimizu Ittetsu, 伊藤美由紀 Miyuki Ito, 岩岡一志 Kazushi Iwaoka, 伊左治直 Sunao Isaji, 川上統 Osamu Kawakami, 川崎真由子 Mayuko Kawasaki, 橘川琢 Migaku Kitsukawa, 小林祥恵 Sachie Kobayashi, Akari Komura, 桑原ゆう Yu Kuwabara, 増本 伎共子 Kikuko Massumoto, 松本祐一 Yuichi Matsumoto, マクイーン時田深山 Miyama McQueen-Tokita, 三界秀実 Hidemi Mikai, 三木稔 Miki Minoru, 見澤ゆかり Yukari Misawa, 森田泰之進 Yasunoshin Morita, 村松崇継 Takatsugu Muramatsu, 長生 淳 Jun Nagao, Akemi Naito, 中堀海都 Kaito Nakahori, Kaori Nakano, 西村 朗 Akira Nishimura, 小栗克裕 Katsuhiro Oguri, 大江千里 Senri Oe, 大羽田 大輔 Daisuke Ohata, Koh Okumura, 佐原詩音 Shion Sahara, 酒井健治 Kenji Sakai, 坂本 龍 Ryuichi Sakamoto, Miho Sasaki, 沢井 忠夫 Tadao Sawai, 清水チャートリー Chatori Shimizu, 下山一二三 Hifumi Shimoyama, 白藤淳一 Junichi Shirafuji, 鈴木治行 Haruyuki Suzuki, 鷹羽弘晃 Hiroaki Takaha, 高橋久美子 Kumiko Takahashi, 田中カレン Karen Tanaka, 田中 翔一朗 Shoichiro Tanaka, 田口和行 Kazuyuki Taguchi, 壺井 一歩 Ippo Tsuboi, 徳山美奈子 Minako Tokuyama, 内田輝 Akira Uchida, Kenjiro Urata, 宇澤とも子 Tomoko Uzawa, 薮田翔一 Shoichi Yabuta, 山口恭子 Kyoko Yamaguchi, 山本和智 Kazutomo Yamamoto, 山本 哲也 Tetsuya Yamamoto, 吉仲 淳 Atsushi Yoshinaka, 湯浅譲二 Joji Yuasa, Eliane Aberdam, Jake Adams, Ramin Akhavijou, Alyssa Aska, Lera Auerbach, Armando Ayala, Milton Babbitt, Trevor Bachman, Rodrigo Baggio, Guy Barash, Greg Bartholomew, Richard Rodney Bennett, Helga Beier, Jean-Patrick Besingrand, Can Bilir, John Bilotta Susan Brewster, Scott Brickman, Gordon Francis Blaney, Jr., Allan Blank, Ed Bland, Philippe Bodin, David Bohn, Seth Boustead, Erik Branch, Julius Bucsis, Canary Burton, John Cage, Oliver Cameron, Utsyo Chakraborty, Wendy Mae Chambers, Kanokpak Changwitchukarn, Yihan Chen, Monica Chew, Young-Shin Choi, William Coble, Andy Cohen, Steve Cohen, Michael Coleman, Douglas DaSilva, Seth David, Andrew Davis, Malcolm Dedman, David Del Tredici, Paul Dice, Nick Didkovsky, Dominic Dousa, Peter Eotvos, Alan Elkins, Elisenda Fabrégas, David Fetherolf, Dagmar Feyen, Donal Fox, Jim Fox, Michael Frazier, Reiko Fueting, Donal Fox, Gilbert Galindo, Lyudmilla German, Gardika Gigih, David Gonzalez, Jacob Goodman, Ulf Grahn, Eli Greenhoe, Adam Giese, Nicolas Gilbert, Jacob Goodman, Melissa Grey, Daron Hagen, Jin Hee Han, David Heuser, Jennifer Higdon, Joel Hobbs, Kevin Holland, Katherine Hoover, Cindi Hsu, Zhihua Hu, Silas Huff, Justin Hung, Kento Iwasaki, Yohei Kurihara, Kittiphan Janbuala, Wang Jie, JP Jofre, Emil Khoury, Sakiko Kosaka, Steven Kreamer, Tim Labor, Benjamin Lees, Paul Yeon Lee, Tania León, Bin Li 李彬, Qi Li, Elizabeth Lim, David Loeb, Piyawat Louilarpprasert, Raymond Luedeke, Joshua Banks Mailman, Matt Mason, Eli Marshall, Peri Mauer, William Mayer, Daniel Mihai, Dom Minasi, Paul Morin, Sandro Montalto, Luigi Morleo, David Morneau, Charalambos Navrozidis, Alon Nechustan, Ian Ng, James Soe Nyun, Sean O'Boyle, Takeshi Ogawa, Lucas Oickle, Sergey Oskolkov, Fernando Otero, Manos Panayiotakis, Akmal Parwez, Joseph Perhson, Troy Peters, Jonathan Pieslak, Russell Platt, Gene Pritsker, Ugo Raimondi, Renaldo Ramai, Giuseppe Rapisarda, André Ristic, Aaron Robinson, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, Erin Rogers, Manly Romero, Paul Anthony Romero, Ned Rorem, Michael Rose, Richard Rosenfeld, Marjorie Rusche, Dana Richardson, Aaron Robinson, Michael Rose, Richard Rosenfeld, Michael Schelle, Brian Schober, David Schober, Allen Schulz, Thomas Schuttenhelm, Edward Schocker, Thanakarn Schofield, Jose Serebrier, Candra Bangun Setyawan, Alex Shanafelt, Emma Shifrin, Bob Siebert, Nina Siniakova, John Spartan, Steven Serpa, Bob Siebert, Samuel Stokes, David Su, Dorian Tabb, Conrad Tao, David Taylor, Emilio Teubal, Olav Anton Thommessen, Daniel Thompson, Ruben Toledo, Douglas Townsend, Frank Warren, Dalit Warshaw, Frances White, Blair Whittington, Benjamin Williams, Donald Reid Womack, Rain Worthington, Russell Wimbish, David Wolfson, Anna Vriend, Sebastien Zaczek, Parsa Zandi.
"Tokyo to New York" concerts - under the direction of Thomas Piercy - include a wide variety of styles of music, from Japanese avant-garde to American contemporary classical, minimalism, neo-Romantic, tango- nuevo, J-pop and jazz-influenced pieces.
Since 2005, clarinetist and hichiriki player Thomas Piercy has lived in both NYC and Tokyo and has had the opportunity to work with many of the Japanese and American composers programmed in these concerts.
