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Musical Director - Tom Davoren |
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Tom Davoren originally hails from the picturesque
Gower peninsula in South Wales and is a graduate of the Music department at Cardiff University,
studying composition with Prof. Anthony Powers.
In 2007 Tom graduated from his initial undergraduate program at the Royal Welsh College of Music
and Drama having studied tuba with Nigel Seaman. During his college years he became member of the Burry Port Town, Polysteel (Flowers) and Buy as You View (Cory) bands, and was also featured as a soloist both with
the RWCMD Wind Orchestra and for the college's 2006 Malcolm Arnold Celebrations.
Tom is quickly developing a reputation as an exciting young composer with his music
receiving performance at events including the Great Northern Spring Brass Arts Festival
(Bridgewater Hall), Regent Hall Brass Arts Festival (London), Brass in Concert Championship
and numerous concerts and contests. His work has also been commercially recorded
for
CD release and for broadcast on BBC Radio 2. With his music for brass band performed
in the UK, Belgium and New Zealand, Tom frequently works to commission. Recent advocates
of his work include the
Leyland Band, PolySteel (Flowers) Band, Pelorus Trust Wellington Band (N.Z.)
and noted soloists including Jonathan Pippen, Martin Britt, Carole Crompton,
Brett Baker and Glenn Van Looy. In
addition to this Tom has held composition residencies with
the Desford Colliery and BTM Bands, and is currently published by Wright and Round Ltd. and Studio
Music Company.
Outside the brass band world Tom has written for the Central Band
of the Royal Air Force, Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo (Halifax, Canada)
and was the brass band advisor and editor for the Welsh National
Opera’s production of Errolyn Wallen's
Carbon 12: A Choral Symphony. He is also an active music journalist and is the founder
and artistic director of the Cardiff New Brass Festival, Wales's only annual contemporary
brass music event.
Tom’s conducting career came to fruition in 2008 when he founded the PolySteel Youth Band. He quickly made his contesting debut with the Upper Rhondda
Brass Band and was proud to accept the position of Musical Director and Composer in Residence with the BTM Band in January
2009.
Tom recently completed a Masters degree in Composition at Cardiff University and
is about to embark on PhD research with Prof. John Pickard at the University of
Bristol. In 2009/10 he was awarded a full scholarship
from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Welsh Livery Guild Music Bursary. He is also member of
Composers of Wales.
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