is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who has applied his musical sensibilities to a broad spectrum of projects. As with so many late baby-boomers, Tom got his musical start watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. He was 7, and he'd seen his future. Sort of... For the next 20 years he played in a variety of rock and roll bands, bluegrass groups, and duos in his native Oklahoma City and his adopted homeland of Boulder, Colorado. He released his first self-produced album, Paradox Found in 1986. Pursuing his interests in world music he then released Rock Music (musical compositions from the sounds of resonatings stones,1989), and Track to Bumbliwa (a collaboration with James Harvey and Australian Aboriginal singers recorded in, and based on the native music of Australia,1991). Tom spent the next two years collecting material for The World Sings Goodnight (a collection of international lullabies by 33 different singers from around the world, 1993). A film score for the mountain biking film Tread followed in 1994 ,then his collaboration with his wife Susan, entitled Many Moons in 1995. A sequel to The World Sings Goodnight was followed by his first award-winning collaboration with Joanne Shenandoah in 1996, Matriarch. 1998 has seen the release of Under the Green Corn Moon (a collection of Native American lullabies sung by fifteen different native singers). Tom is also the founder on The Lost Angel Stone Ensemble, a performing and touring ensemble of resonating stone instruments. Tom's favorite pastime outside of his family is collecting and building unusual instruments from around the world.
