Thomas Gallant

For a historian, see Thomas W. Gallant.
Thomas Gallant
Instruments Oboe
Associated acts Adaskin String Trio
Notable instruments
Fratelli Patricola 'Evoluzione' oboe

Thomas Gallant is an American oboist who performs with the Adaskin String Trio as well as other chamber music groups.[1][2] Gallant is managing director of MCM Artists, a classical and contemporary musicians agency.[3]

Biography

Early life and education

Gallant studied at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, USA, with Jerry Sirucek.[4]

Career

Gallent has performed at Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City and in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Vienna Konzerthaus in Austria, Spoleto Festival in Italy and Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. He has been guest soloist with the Kronos Quartet at the Ravinia Festival and has collaborated with flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal and Paula Robison, Cuarteto Casals, the Colorado and Lark Quartets, Cuarteto Latinoamericano and the Adaskin String Trio.[5]

Thomas Gallant is known for his performance style which combines the American and European traditions of oboe playing with an “Evoluzione” oboe made by the Italian maker Fratelli Patricola.[5]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Archived June 12, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ "Chamber and Commerce; Oboist Thomas Gallant Works on Both Sides of the Music Equation". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 1993-06-25. p. 8. Thomas Gallant is enjoying the best of two worlds, heading an artist management company while continuing a successful performing career.
  4. 1 2 Rothstein, Edward (1983-12-11). "Music: Debuts in Review; The Stony Brook Trio and Thomas Gallant are Among Recitalists". New York Times.
  5. 1 2 "Google Drive". Docs.google.com. Retrieved 2014-04-08.

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