Tom Sochas

about

Tom is a Franco-American pianist born and raised in Paris, France and Nairobi, Kenya. He moved to the UK in 2008 to study Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. This was a great place to collaborate and create with like minded musicians and artists, allowing him to perform and explore classical, jazz and non-western music. University also provided a comfortable environment for learning to score both films and theatre. His passion for Jazz, however, only truly blossomed after University when he moved to London and began to study the rudiments, first on his own, and then privately with award winning pianist Tom Cawley. It's around this time that he began to also compose for quartet and brainchild : Phoenician Blinds. This contemporary jazz quartet has kept very busy and released three critically acclaimed albums, gone on several UK tours and recently been nominated for an UMA Award for Best Jazz Act 2018. Tom has now also created a group under his own name and is soon to release some new music and perform it in the year to come. Today he focuses in equal parts on his practice, playing with his own original quartet, Phoenician Blinds, but also composes for film and theatre. Some of his most recent collaborations feature physical-theatre dramaturge and actor Maite Jauregui. Tom was commissioned to write five pieces of instrumental music to accompany the one-woman piece. Most recently he was also commisioned to write music for a play entitled Eating Myself, written by

top songs

albums

Facing North

The Sorcerer

You Could Hear the Bird Sing

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Lament

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Summit Push

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Prologue

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Facing North (feat. Thodoris Ziarkas & Filippo Galli)

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The Sorcerer (feat. Thodoris Ziarkas & Olly Sarkar)

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Lament (feat. Thodoris Ziarkas & Olly Sarkar) - Single

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The Spell

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You Could Hear the Bird Sing - EP

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Prologue - Single

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