Tom Bradbury

Tom Bradbury

Composer

About

About

Tom is a composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music engages with environmental issues, teenage mental health, and the dualities, contradictions, and blurred boundaries between appearance and reality. Also fascinated by antithetical and oxymoronic ideas, Tom creates dense and gestural sound worlds that invite listeners into spaces of ambiguity, complexity, and emotional depth.

Concerts

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Grace McCloud on Snowdon as part of Issue no.6 of Modern House Magazine (May 2023)

“Tom’s submission to our brief was breathtaking, his concept bold. … There is a breadth and depth to this sound that conveys a soaring summit sublimely, in the Romantic sense: emotion, nature, overwhelming beauty.”

Dominic Murcott and Deirdre Gribbin on Intricacies of the Mind (for solo cello) (June 2023)

”This work is individual and has a clear sense of attack and release.   … Harmonic language is caried and beautifully unfolded over the span of the full melodic line from beginning to end without releasing tension which is an achievement.”

Dominic Murcott, Deirdre Gribbin on The Hunt - for orchestra (June 2023)

‘’A strong orchestral work which uses a range of styles.(…) There is an awareness of timbre and instrumental blend with a strong sense of foreground and background. (…) There is a strong sense of drama and structural coherence”.

Niko Raic on the musical response to his painting Listopad: Sequence 8164. (October 2024)

“I am amazed by how Tom paralleled the painterly notions, heard the brushstrokes into his compositional process. …) The gradual harmonic intensification creates a very ‘free, liberated atmosphere, I think it works incredibly with the painting. Wow!”