Thomas Piercy, clarinet.
Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed musician with orchestral, concerto, recital and chamber music appearances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has been described by The New York Times as “Brilliant...playing with refinement and flair…evoking a panache in the contemporary works.” Lucid Culture Magazine wrote of a Piercy concert of Piazzolla music, "The Best Piazzolla in New York. There couldn’t have been anything better...an impressively inclusive overview. Piercy’s often mournful clarinet brought out every bit of melody in the program.
A versatile artist defying categorization – performing on the Emmy Award-winning Juno Baby CDs and DVDs; performing with pianist Earl Wild and Frederica von Stade; working with Leonard Bernstein; appearing in a KRS-ONE music video; playing hichiriki in Japan; recording with members of Maroon 5; premiering over 300 works composed for him; performing on Broadway and Off-Broadway, television, radio, and commercial recordings. Studied at the Juilliard School and Mannes School of Music. Clarinet studies with Gervase De Peyer, Dr. Stephen Johnston, Leon Russianoff, and Kalmen Opperman; hichiriki studies with Hitomi Nakamura. Recordings for Albany, Capstone, DGI, Changing Tones, NJST, Tonada Records and more. More information: www.thomaspiercy.com
Supporting Musicians: Emilio Teubal, piano
Emilio Teubal is a pianist/ composer/arranger from Argentina based in New York. He has recorded both as a sideman and as a composer/bandleader over twenty albums including the 2018 Latin Grammy Winner album “Vigor Tanguero." His latest solo record, “Tides”, is a compilation of improvised and composed pieces for piano that will be released by New Focus Recordings. Prior to the “Tides” album, he released four other albums: “Memorias de Otro Tiempo”, “Música Para Un Dragon Dormido", "La Balteuband", and "Un Monton de Notas". Emilio has performed in the most prestigious venues in the United States such as The Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Symphony Space, The Blue Note, Birdland, Le Poisson Rouge and Joe’s Pub, and has been touring Japan on a regular basis since 2018. Emilio was a recipient of the 2007 Meet the Composer’s Van Lier Fellowship, and was recently commissioned to write a piece for Japan-based “Music KART”, as experimental contemporary quintet including clarinetist Thomas Piercy, which will be recorded in 2020. More info: https://www.emilioteubal.com/home