Tom Poster
Tom Poster is a musician whose skills and passions extend well beyond the conventional role of the concert pianist. During the 2020 lockdown, his #UriPosteJukebox series with Elena Urioste — featuring Tom as pianist, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, writer, backing dancer and snowman — reached audiences across the world and won the duo the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Inspiration Award and a BBC Music Magazine Award. Tom is founder and artistic director of Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, appointed Associate Ensemble at Wigmore Hall in 2020. With a flexible line-up featuring many of today’s most inspirational musicians, and an ardent commitment to diversity through its creative programming,
Kaleidoscope has recently enjoyed residencies at the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and Ischia festivals, and recorded several critically-acclaimed albums for Chandos. Tom has performed over forty concertos from Mozart to Ligeti with Aurora Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, China National Symphony, Hallé, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic and Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He has made multiple appearances at the BBC Proms, recorded for BIS, Decca, Orchid and Warner Classics, and regularly features as soloist on film soundtracks. As a composer, Tom’s recent commissions include two pieces for Alison Balsom, Turn to the Watery World! and The Thoughts of Dr May, the latter recorded for Warner Classics; a set of songs for Matthew Rose commissioned by Wigmore Hall; and The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak, a chamber opera for Wattle & Daub, which received a critically acclaimed three-week run at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2017. Tom’s arrangements of Great American Songbook classics have been heard all over the world, and recorded by Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott, Elena Urioste and others. He is a lifelong fan of animals with unusual noses.
Tom Poster is a musician whose skills and passions extend well beyond the conventional role of the concert pianist. During the 2020 lockdown, his #UriPosteJukebox series with Elena Urioste — featuring Tom as pianist, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, writer, backing dancer and snowman — reached audiences across the world and won the duo the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Inspiration Award and a BBC Music Magazine Award. Tom is founder and artistic director of Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, appointed Associate Ensemble at Wigmore Hall in 2020. With a flexible line-up featuring many of today’s most inspirational musicians, and an ardent commitment to diversity through its creative programming,
Kaleidoscope has recently enjoyed residencies at the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and Ischia festivals, and recorded several critically-acclaimed albums for Chandos. Tom has performed over forty concertos from Mozart to Ligeti with Aurora Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, China National Symphony, Hallé, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic and Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He has made multiple appearances at the BBC Proms, recorded for BIS, Decca, Orchid and Warner Classics, and regularly features as soloist on film soundtracks. As a composer, Tom’s recent commissions include two pieces for Alison Balsom, Turn to the Watery World! and The Thoughts of Dr May, the latter recorded for Warner Classics; a set of songs for Matthew Rose commissioned by Wigmore Hall; and The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak, a chamber opera for Wattle & Daub, which received a critically acclaimed three-week run at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2017. Tom’s arrangements of Great American Songbook classics have been heard all over the world, and recorded by Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott, Elena Urioste and others. He is a lifelong fan of animals with unusual noses.
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