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THOMAS PIERCY  ~ HICHIRIKI
トーマス・ピアシー  ~  
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Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed musician with orchestral, concerto, solo recital and chamber music appearances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Described by The New York Times as “Brilliant...playing with refinement and flair…evoking a panache in the contemporary works…,” Mr. Piercy presents audiences to varied and exciting concerts of standard classical music, jazz-inspired programs, contemporary works, pieces written specifically for him and his own original arrangements, compositions and collaborations. Piercy's repertoire ranges from Mozart and Beethoven to premieres of compositions written for him by some of the most outstanding composers of today, including Ned Rorem, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Jennifer Higdon, Fernando Otero, and Shoichi Yabuta. 

A versatile artist defying categorization – performing on the Emmy Award-winning Juno Baby CDs and DVDs; playing Rhapsody in Blue with pianist Earl Wild; performing concert improvisations with pianist Donal Fox; performing Mozart with mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade; playing Broadway songs with Raoul Julia; conducting Cabaret or Rodgers & Hammerstein; working with the composer Leonard Bernstein; appearing in a KRS-ONE music video; playing hichiriki in Japan and the U.S.; recording with members of Maroon 5 - as an instrumentalist, singer, director and music director/conductor and actor, he has performed for Broadway and Off-Broadway, television, radio, video and commercial recordings.

Piercy performs and records on rare rosewood English-bore clarinets made for him by Luis Rossi of Santiago, Chile, and Buffet Prestige clarinets with Opperman mouthpieces and barrels. His sound has been described by critics as "uniquely beautiful and consistently warm."

Mr. Piercy has performed at many of the worlds acclaimed concerts halls including Carnegie Hall (NY, NY), Lincoln Center (NY, NY), the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC.), the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series (Chicago, Illinois), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), Wigmore Hall (London, England), Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome, Italy) and Parthenon (Tokyo, Japan).

Piercy's many festival appearances have included a featured performance in memory of Leon Russianoff at the 1991 International ClarinetFest, a concert of contemporary American music at the 2005 ClarinetFest in Tokyo, Japan, and an all-Piazzolla concert at the 2007 International Clarinet Festival in Vancouver, Canada. He has performed in concerts and festivals in England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Denmark, The United States, Canada, Mexico, China, and Japan.

Mr. Piercy has received grants for recordings, commissions, and performances from the Cary Trust (1999-2010), the Scandinavian Foundation, the International Clarinet Association, New York State Council on the Arts (1999-2021), the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (1999-2021), NYC Creative Engagement (2020), New Music USA (2020), and NY City Artists Corps (2021).

Piercy's earliest studies were in both voice and clarinet. A recipient of numerous scholarships, prizes and awards, he studied clarinet, voice and conducting at the Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music, Virginia Commonwealth University and Shenandoah Conservatory. Piercy's earliest studies were in both voice and clarinet. He began his college education studying clarinet under Dr. Stephen Johnston at Shenandoah Conservatory and Gailyn Parks at Virginia Commonwealth University. He later moved to New York City to study with Gervase De Peyer under scholarship at Mannes College of Music; he continued to study extensively with De Peyer after leaving Mannes. Piercy later studied with and soon became an assistant to the renowned clarinet pedagogue Leon Russianoff; additional clarinet studies and reed-making studies were undertaken with clarinetist, reed, barrel and mouthpiece maker, and composer Kalmen Opperman. He has had arrangements and transcriptions published by Boosey & Hawkes, and as an assistant to Kalmen Opperman, he has contributed to clarinet study books and clarinet compositions published by Carl Fischer, Inc., and Baron Publishing. In demand as a clarinet, sax and voice teacher, many of Piercy's students have gone on to schools and careers in music.

Piercy is currently the Artistic Director and clarinetist of the Gotham Ensemble. A mixed vocal and instrumental ensemble based in New York City, the Gotham Ensemble premieres, performs and records a wide variety of repertoire, from the Classical to the avant-garde. A New York Times review of Gotham's Merkin Hall, New York City, performance of a program of Olav Thommessen's music specifically encouraged the public to go out and purchase the recordings. After a performance of Ned Rorem's "Ariel" at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Rorem wrote of Gotham as one of America's important chamber music groups performing new music today. Albany Records released “Gotham Ensemble Plays Ned Rorem” - a CD of Ned Rorem's chamber music featuring the clarinet.


A frequent performer of new music, Mr. Piercy has premiered over 200 compositions composed for him. The works, for clarinet, bass clarinet or hichiriki, include solo pieces, duos, trios, quartets, larger mixed ensembles, concertos and double concertos. They include a wide variety of styles of music, from contemporary classical to Japanese avant-garde; from the abstract to minimalism; from J-pop to jazz-influenced pieces.  The composers have ranged from 10 to 97 years of age.  They come from all walks of life and experience: from university students to university professors; from self-taught composers to composers with Ph.Ds; from emerging composers to composers that have won such prominent awards as the Takemitsu Prize, the Geneva Composition Prize, the Grammy Award, the Latin Grammy Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.  

Ned Rorem, a Pulitzer Prize winner and Grammy Award-winning composer, wrote his only clarinet and piano piece, "Four Colors," for Mr. Piercy. The work had its premier at an 80th birthday concert celebration for Mr. Rorem at Carnegie Hall in the fall of 2003. A short list of the composers he has worked with and premiered their works (many of them written for him) include Milton Babbit, Kei Daigo, Masatora Goya, Osamu Kawakami, Migaku Kitsukawa, Yu Kuwabara, Yasunoshin Morita, Jun Nagao, Senri Oe, Miho Sasaki, Hifumi Shimoyama, Shoichiro Tanaka, Kazuyuki Taguchi, Ippo Tsuboi, Shoichi Yabuta, Trevor Bachman, Richard Rodney Bennett, Ed Bland, Jean-Patrick Besingrand, Wendy Mae Chambers, Chen Yiahn, David Del Tredici, Elisenda Fabrégas, Donal Fox, Melissa Grey, Daron Hagen, Jennifer Higdon, Katherine Hoover, Bin Li, David Loeb, Fernando Otero, Russell Platt, Gene Pritsker, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, Paul Anthony Romero, Ned Rorem, Michael Schelle, Olav Anton Thommessen, and many others.

Piercy's discography includes "Gotham Ensemble Plays Ned Rorem", a CD of chamber music featuring the clarinet (released by Albany Records), "CAFE", a CD of music for clarinet and guitar (released by Tonada Records), the world-premier recording of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's "Ballad in Memory of Shirley Horn" and the Emmy Award winning CDs and DVDs "Juno Baby." He can also be heard on commercials, film and theater recordings.  He has recorded for the Albany, Capstone, DGI, Changing Tones, NJST, and Tonada Records labels.



Thomas Piercy is an official Rossi Clarinet, Forestone Reeds and Silverstein Artist.
www.rossiclarinet.com    www.forestone-japan.com     www.silversteinworks.com    
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Thomas Piercy, based in NYC and Tokyo, 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.” 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 rap music video; playing hichiriki in Japan; recording with members of Maroon 5 and other pop groups; premiering many works composed for him; performing on Broadway and Off-Broadway, television, radio, and commercial recordings.  Piercy's repertoire ranges from Mozart and Beethoven to premieres of compositions written for him by some of the most outstanding composers of today, including Ned Rorem, Jennifer Higdon, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Fernando Otero, and Shoichi Yabuta. 
 A frequent performer of new music, Mr. Piercy has premiered over 300 compositions composed for him. The composers have ranged from 10 to 97 years of age, and come from all walks of life and experience: from university students to university professors; from self-taught composers to composers with PhDs; from emerging composers to composers that have won such prominent awards as the Grammy Award, the Latin Grammy Award, the Takemitsu Prize, the Geneva Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize.  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
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Thomas Piercy is an official Rossi Clarinet, Forestone Reeds and Silverstein Artist.
www.rossiclarinet.com    www.forestone-japan.com     www.silversteinworks.com    ​


トーマス・ピアシー
クラリネット & 篳篥

北米、南米、ヨーロッパ、アジア全土においてその演奏が高く評価されているクラリネット奏者、Thomas Piercyは、オーケストラ、コンチェルト、ソロそして室内楽のフィールドで活躍中。現代音楽の演奏家として知られるThomas Piercyは、作曲家から作品の演奏依頼を受け数多くのプレミア公演をし、ここ三年間でニューヨークと東京でプレミア公演した作品数は40を超える。「確実なストップをとらえていながらも情熱にあふれている」とThe New York Timesに描写された奏者は、スタンダードなクラシック音楽をはじめ、ジャズ色の強いプログラムやコンテンポラリーな作品、彼のために作曲された作品、 彼自身によるアレンジ、作曲、コラボレーションなど幅の広いエキサイティングなコンサートで活動。チリ、サンチアゴ市のルイス・ロッシ氏による使用楽器は、稀なローズウッドを使用したラージボアクラリネット。

確かな演奏技術により、既存のカテゴリーの枠を超えた幅の広い演奏活動を続け、各界からの厚い信頼を受けている。レコーディングに参加した『Juno Baby』CD/DVDはエミー賞を受賞し、グラミー賞受賞タンゴ・ヌエボ・ピアニストOctavio Brunettiとグラミー賞にノミネートされたベーシストPablo Aslanとの共演をはじめ、メゾ・ソプラノFrederica von Stadeとはモーツァルト作品で共演、Raoul Julia氏が出演したブロードウェイ作品の演奏、レナード・バーンスタイン氏指揮下での演奏、ラップ・アーティストKRS-ONEのプロモーションビデオに俳優として出演、またマルーン5のメンバーのレコーディングでは各種楽器の演奏をこなした。またディレクター、音楽ディレクター、指揮者としても活躍している。ブロードウェイ、オフ・ブロードウェイ作品のレコーディング、および俳優としても参加。その他にもテレビ・ラジオ番組、コマーシャルをはじめ映画などのサウンドトラックレコーディングにおいてもレコーディングに参加している。 

現在、アーティスティックディレクターおよびクラリネット奏者としてGotham Ensembleを主宰。 ボーカルと楽器のアンサンブルであるGotham Ensembleはニューヨークに 拠点を置き、クラシックからアバンギャルドまでの幅広い作品の演奏(プレミア、レコーディング他)を中心に活動。Merkin HallでのOlav Thommessen作品演奏へのThe New York TimesレビューでGotham Ensembleのレコーディングは一躍有名に。Carnegie Hall内Weill Recital HallにおけるArielの演奏を聴いた作曲者Ned Roremは(Gotham Ensembleを)現在のアメリカにおいて最も重要な室内楽グループのひとつとして表す。Ned Rorem作曲のクラリネットによる室内楽を集めたCD「Gotham Ensemble Plays Ned Rorem」はAlbany Recordsよりリリース。Thomas Piercyのために作曲された「Four Colors」は、Pulitzer PrizeおよびGrammy Award受賞のNed Roremによる唯一のクラリネットとピアノのための作品で、Carnegie Hallにおける2003年秋のNed Rorem生誕80歳記念コンサートにおいてプレミアされた。


奨学金、各種賞などを多々受賞した奏者は、Julliard School、Mannes College of Music、Virginia Commonwealth University、Shenandoah Conservatoryにてクラリネット、声楽、指揮法を学ぶ。最初の分野は声楽およびクラリネットで、大学在学中は、Shenandoah ConservatoryにおいてDr. Stephen Johnstonに師事し、Virginia Commonwealth UniversityではGailyn Parksに師事した。その後ニューヨークのMannes College of MusicにおいてGervase De Peyerに師事。その後も引き続き個人的にDe Peyerに師事を続ける。著名なクラリネット奏者Leon Russianoffへも師事し、アシスタントとしても抜擢される。その他、クラリネット演奏、リード製作で世界的に有名なKalmen Oppermanに師事する。自身もクラリネット、サックス、声楽を教え、たくさんの生徒を音楽系の学校に送り出し、他のミュージシャンにもレッスンを与える。

発売されている演奏作品のレーベルにはAlbanyレコード、Capstoneレコード、Changing Tonesレコード、DGレコード、Juno Babyレコード、Tonadaレコードなどが含まれる。
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