THOMAS PIERCY
CLARINET & HICHIRIKI

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​Passionate
The New York Times 

The Intrepid clarinettist Thomas Piercy. 
The New Yorker

Brilliant...playing with refinement and flair....
The New York Times 

Thomas Piercy — equally adept at clarinet and hichiriki.
The New Yorker


Piercy brought forth a sense of mood and appealing emotion helped by his consistently warm and beautiful sound. 
The Norway Times 

Piercy came out swinging. People could imagine they were hearing the late, great Benny Goodman as Piercy wove to and fro. 
The Richmond Times Dispatch 


Piercy played with expression and character. 
The New York Concert Review 


Piercy has it all...extraordinary technique, a uniquely beautiful sound.
He made the clarinet sing. 
Le Libre Paris 


A classic performance. 
The Clarinet Magazine 


Extraordinary performances by top players bring distinction to this recording... Piercy shows remarkable virtuosity in some deep emotional terrain. 
Times Union, NY 


While Ned Rorem’s music is certainly complex, it still possesses a romantic leaning that, especially with the Gotham Ensemble playing, is both thought-provoking and emotive. 
New Music Box 


Mr. Piercy is masterly on his clarinet. 
The New York Sun 


...an intense and illuminating musical experience, Tom Piercy met the many technical demands asked for in the work, especially providing colors ranging from warm to astringent. 
New Music Connoisseur 


The eight musicians include the composer at the piano and they play a score longer than many operas with as much easy energy at the end as at the beginning. 
The New York Times 


The Best Piazzolla in New York. There couldn’t have been anything better...an impressively inclusive overview of Piazzolla’s career. Piercy’s often mournful clarinet brought out every bit of melody in the program. The crowd was spellbound. If Piercy’s planned upcoming recording of Piazzolla works is anything like this, it’ll be amazing. 
Lucid Culture 


The trio of clarinetist/arranger Thomas Piercy, pianist Claudine Hickman and upright bassist Pablo Aslan managed to silence the sold-out room with a practically telepathic, emotionally rich program of both familiar and more obscure compositions by the legendary Argentinian composer.
Lucid Culture

Piercy expertly worked the nooks and crannies of the songs’ innumerable permutations. Piazzolla, ever the innovator, would no doubt have approved. 
Lucid Culture 

"Yelps, yowls and dry creaky hisses. These aren’t the sounds you might ordinarily associate with the clarinet - and you would be equally surprised to declare these sounds beautiful."
Queens Chronicle

An expressive performance of the virtuosic program. 
The New York Times

"Tokyo to New York - 2013"  A fascinatingly eclectic, virtuosic program of new works from Japan and the U.S.…Piercy tackled the music’s wide range of demands with verve, insight and sensitivity…his extended technique is subtly spectacular: throughout the concert, he exhibited misty overtones, eerie polytonalities, perfectly sinuous glissandos and command of the lows and highs beyond the reach of most clarinetists.  Piercy is doing crucial cultural preservation work here.
Lucid Culture

…the contemporary fare here evoked a panache from the players…spirit and accomplishment everywhere…drew out brilliantly the shimmering sonic richness of the nine works on display. 
The New York Times