Composer, Thomas McColley, is from Baltimore, Maryland and lives in Tampa, Florida. As a composer, he finds inspiration by collaborating with performers. Tom is Professor of Composition at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Co-Director of the Community School of the Arts in Tampa, teaches at Corbett Preparatory School of IDS, and is Resident Composer with the Reflections Chamber Ensemble. His music is characterized by a fascination with musical color and orchestration, and he loves drawing on the sounds of many cultures and genres as part of the creative process. His work includes solo pieces, chamber music, works for large ensemble, electronic music, and music for the theater. His music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe. Recent commissions include Behind the Eye, a flute quartet,for Flute 4, in North Carolina, Deep Blue, a clarinet quintet, for Buffet Crampon, and Night Waves, for trombone and piano, for the Eastern Trombone Workshop. In addition to his work as a composer he has taught music theory and orchestration at all levels and has been active as a trombonist for most of his life. He received his B.A. in Trombone Performance from the University of South Florida and his M.A. in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego. Tom is married to clarinetist, Stacey McColley, and father to two wonderful, musicians, Adam, a trombonist in the Washington, D.C. area, and John, a harpist in Tampa. A grateful lymphoma survivor, he enjoys volunteering for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
