Tom Thorp's ILUMETRIS

Debut album "Here, There be Monsters..."

Tom Thorp - Saxophones, Clarinets
Neil Yates - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Andrew Stamatakis-Brown - Piano
Grant Russell - Bass 
John Arnesen - Drums

*Featuring guest performance of excerpts from Beowulf by Professor George Walkden. 

Recorded and mixed by Lee Aston.

All works written by Tom Thorp

Grendel (Featuring Prof. George Walkden)

Tom Thorp's ILUMETRIS

Debut album "Here, There be Monsters..."

Tom Thorp - Saxophones, Clarinets
Neil Yates - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Andrew Stamatakis-Brown - Piano
Grant Russell - Bass 
John Arnesen - Drums

*Featuring guest performance of excerpts from Beowulf by Professor George Walkden. 

Recorded and mixed by Lee Aston.
Mastering by Brendan Williams

All works written by Tom Thorp

We have a Pixie problem!

A live recording of "Sherweg Aleshem" by Tom Thorp

From the "Steve Berry's Wall of Sound Orchestra" project at Band on the Wall. October 2014

An orchestral jazz project lead by world renowned Loose Tubes bassist Steve Berry, which commissioned exciting emerging jazz composers from the North of England to write/perform new pieces for a large ensemble.

Tenor Saxophone Solo - Tom Thorp
Bass Clarinet solo - Sam Rapley
Cello Solo - Adam Robinson

Live at Band On The Wall

Sherweg Aleshem - Live at Band on the Wall

"Hex" by Tom Thorp & The Taka Ensemble

Rehearsal demo from March 2024. 

Tom Thorp - Soprano Saxophone
Richard Harrold - Piano
Geth Griffith - Bass
Elena Orsi - Violin
Graham Clarke - Violin
Laurie Dempsey - Viola
Lucy McCluckie - Cello

Tom Thorp & The Taka Ensemble - "Hex" Demo

A selection of samples from a live recording of Tom Thorp & The Taka Ensemble's first public performance at Howden Minster, Yorkshire. 

Tom Thorp - Saxophones/Bass Clarinet
Graham Clark - Violin
Faz Shah - Violin 
Tim Rathbone - Viola
Mike Newman - Cello
David Austin Grey - Piano
Geth Griffith - Double Bass

Tom Thorp & The Taka Ensemble - Samples

A track from Mercury's 2016 album "Sea Speak"

Scatter

Album by UK Sax quartet Polygon. 

Tom Thorp - Sop, Alto, Tenor Saxes
Kris Urbanski - Alto, Tenor Saxes
Jeff Guntren - Tenor Sax
Kyran Matthews - Bari, Tenor Saxes

All works by Tom Thorp (except Krips and Bluds by Kyran Matthews)

Monkey Puzzle

The first movement of my song cycle based on the poetry of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

Under Milkwood

Miniatures For Saxophones (2010)

Recorded by Borealis Sax Quartet

Soprano - Miriam Rintelen
Soprano/Alto - Melina Zéléniuc
Tenor - Gillian Blair
Baritone - Daniel White


Location Recording at Royal Northern College of Music by Tom Thorp 2012 for "Tom Thorp: Works for Single Reeds" CD.



01 I. What Time Do You Call This

03 III. A Face You Used to Love

04 IV. Riffing in 5

Tom is a Saxophonist/Composer based in Manchester, United Kingdom. He works and writes in a wide variety of genre's, as a performing Jazz/Session Saxophonist and Keyboard player and also Arranger/Original Composer of Jazz and Contemporary Classical works.

Tom J Thorp

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