Education & transmission
Find your voice within the language.
Teaching grounded in the lived experience of performance, arranging, composition and collaboration.
A creative practice
Understanding how music works.
Alongside his performing and creative work, Tom has spent much of his professional life in music education, teaching at second level and lecturing in Irish Traditional Music at TU Dublin.
His approach encourages musicians not merely to reproduce music, but to understand how musical language works and how they might find their own voice within it.
Traditional music
Learning through listening, playing together, phrasing, variation and context.
Arrangement
Giving musical ideas shape while protecting the life of the original material.
Composition
Building confidence, craft and curiosity around an emerging musical voice.
Ensemble
Understanding how musical choices live in the hands and breath of other performers.
Workshops & teaching
For musicians, ensembles and educators.
Workshop enquiries are welcomed through the contact page.