Tom Hardy, composer and bassoon/contra bassoon. I started this myspace page as a companion to my broader www.myspace.com/tomhardymusic as I want to network with classical musicians and bassoon players of all shapes and sizes and hope we can share online resources and links to make life easier. Myspace gets a bit noisy very quickly so please only add me if you want to share ideas and listen to what I do and have me do likewise and not if you have some "auto find friends" machine switched on to add zillions of people you have no intention of ever meeting. ;-)
Influences
For bassoon - Milan Turkovik, Klaus Thunemann, Martin Gatt, Meyrick Alexander, Graham Sheen, Ian Cuthill, Dominic Weir, David Lock, Ursula Leveaux
For composition I have a wide range of styles and tastes and loves! But summed up in this quote:
"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not believe in trying to say it in music." Gustav Mahler 1860-1911
Sounds Like
"The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball . . . I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon." Frank Zappa .....................................
Nocturne sheet music available from Spartan Press, June Emerson or direct here:
http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/065598/details.html?kbid=1582
Bassoon & Contra Bassoon.
Guildhall School of Music GGSM Hons, studied with Ian Cuthill, Dominic Weir (contra)
Post graduate studies at National Centre for Orchestral Studies (under Goldsmith’s College, London).
Tom Hardy has freelanced in London as a bassoon and contra player and has played with The English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Welsh National Opera, Ulster Orchestra, and many others. He was the bassoon player in the hit show 42nd Street (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) for two years.
Chamber Music:
Founder member of Etesian Winds wind quintet and Concertone – wind and piano ensemble.
Other music projects can be found at www.myspace.com/tomhardymusic
Hi Tom, Yes you do seem a little out numbered - will have to recruit more wind playing friends..... I love the bassoon - played in a concerto in same programme as Gustavo Nunez doing Weber in summer - and now I love it even more! You write for it and play it so well too. All the best
