 |  | "Tom's music is sophisticated, smart and fun and his compositions provide a fantastic bridge between the educational and professional music worlds.
If I was leading a younger band, I would stock my library full of his music!"
- Maria Schneider
| 7/8/2008 11:35:04 PM - With music degrees from Ithaca College and The Eastman School of Music, Tom Davis has been an educator for 27 years at the high school level. He has studied trumpet with Herb Mueller and Vincent DiMartino and has studied jazz improvisation and/or composition with Bill Dobbins, Rayburn Wright, Ramon Ricker, John LaBarbera, Steve Brown, Samuel Adler, Robert Morris, and Dana Wilson.
In addition to performing with a local jazz quintet, “Exit 41”, Tom has performed with Tom Harrell, Bill Dobbins, Slam Stewart, and Slide Hampton and has composed for the New Orleans Brass Quintet, Jim Pugh, Sir Roland Hanna, and Wynton Marsalis.
His ensembles have hosted guest artists and clinicians Jim Pugh, Barry Harris, Tom Christiansen, Jeff Jarvis, Bob Thompson, John Fedchock, Dave Mancini, Dennis DiBlasio, Willy Thomas, David Glasser, and Jon Faddis. In 1996 the Canandaigua Academy Jazz Ensemble (under Davis’ direction) was a finalist in the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Ensemble Competition hosted by the Lincoln Center Jazz Ensemble and Wynton Marsalis.
Tom currently has well over 100 jazz and concert band compositions published with Educational Programs Publications (EPP), Heritage Jazz Works (a division of Lorenz), Kendor Music, and Warner Brothers Publications, and has been commissioned by schools to write original compositions for their programs including New Trier High School Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Jim Warrick; Conard High School Concert Jazz Ensemble, West Hartford, Connecticut, directed by Scott Porter; Newark High School Jazz Ensemble, David Schwind, Director; The UNCW Jazz Ensemble, Wilmington North Carolina, Directed by Dr, Frank Bongiorno and most recently the St. Louis Metropolitan District Eight honors Jazz Esnemble.
Tom has been active as a conductor and clinician, conducting All-County and Honors groups including the Connecticut Eastern Regional Junior High Jazz Ensemble. He has been a clinician for Heritage Festivals (Salt Lake City, Utah) and has adjudicated festivals in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina, and Missouri. Davis is currently the K-12 Music Supervisor of the Canandaigua City School District – Canandaigua, NY – A National Blue Ribbon School and listed as one of the AMC’s top 100 music programs in the US.
In September 2007 Tom released his latest CD of new compositions- Lake Songs - on his own label which can be found online at www.tomdavismusic.com. Tom can be reached at tom@tomdavismusic.com. | | |
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128 Deerfield Drive
Canandaigua, NY 14424
(585)-394-3750 (h)
(585) 749-3553 (cell)
tom@tomdavismusic.com
Canandaigua Academy
K-12 Curriculum Area Lead Teacher
435 East Street
Canandaigua, NY 14424
(585) 396-3833 (s)
davist@canandaiguaschools.org
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