Tom Kolor

Specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first–century music, percussionist Tom Kolor holds a master’s degree from the Juilliard School and is presently an adjunct professor at Purchase College and William Paterson University. This season, he performed with vocalist Meredith Monk, bassist Anthony Jackson, guitarist Steven Mackey, and drummer Roland Vasquez, and collaborated with composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Tom Kolor is a member of Talujon Percussion, the Columbia Sinfonietta, Ensemble 21, Sospeso, the American Modern Ensemble, Newband, and the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. He is the frequent guest of such ensembles as New York New Music Ensemble, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Speculum Musicae, Continuum, Da Capo Chamber Players, the Group for Contemporary Music, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. As a soloist, he has premiered works by such composers as Milton Babbitt, John Zorn, Wayne Peterson, Tania Leon, and Jerome Kitzke. Tom Kolor has recorded for the Bridge, New World, Albany, Capstone, Innova, Wergo, Naxos, CRI, Koch, RCA Classics, Tzadik, and North/South Consonance labels.