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THOMAS PIERCY
CLARINET & HICHIRIKI (Click on photos to enlarge)                                            |
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 Mr. Piercy illuminates the music with soft trills and warblings; his dynamic control is uncanny. Mr. Piercy's lambent tone and dynamic variety made for an engrossing experience. In Miho Sasaki's "黎明 - reimei - Dawn", Mr. Piercy traded his clarinet for the ohichiriki. The music, veering from disturbing to reassuring along the way, was very impressively served. In Mr. Piercy's "Tokyo to New York" event, the audience experienced the performance in a spellbound state. Oberon Thomas Piercy, a world-renowned clarinetist and hichiriki player actively engaged in premiering commissioned works, took on the contemporary compositions of Japanese and American composers for this "Tokyo to New York" performance. The anticipation for the encounters that awaited in this concert was palpable. 伊左治直 Sunao Isaji's "Dancing Piper", a Hichiriki solo piece was a masterpiece, displaying Piercy's skill in playing the instrument at a high speed. Joji Yuasa's "Solitude" for solo clarinet allowed Piercy to showcase his full range of skills. The music created a mysterious atmosphere with warped time and space, intertwining reality and illusion. Piercy's performance demonstrated the richness of Yuasa's musical creativity. Mercure des arts In "Thomas Piercy: Tokyo to New York" ONOKORO - an evening of music and dance, Mr. Piercy illuminates the music with soft trills and warblings; his dynamic control is uncanny. Mr. Piercy's lambent tone and dynamic variety made for an engrossing experience. In Miho Sasaki's "黎明 - reimei - Dawn", Mr. Piercy traded his clarinet for the ohichiriki. The music, veering from disturbing to reassuring along the way, was very impressively served. In Mr. Piercy's "Tokyo to New York" event, the audience experienced the performance in a spellbound state. Oberon Virtuoso clarinetist Thomas Piercy takes a rare turn on bass model in the recording of Gilbert Galindo's "Lost in the Caves", a light touch of electronic reverb enhancing his tightly clustering, energetic, wary phrasing, with an animatedly conversational passage but also moments of surprising calm. New York Music Daily …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
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