Tom Appleton

Performer

Tom’s versatility sees him regularly perform with some of the world’s finest ensembles, community groups and also children with special educational needs.

Carnegie Hall

BBC Proms Soloist

The Monteverdi Choir

Nobel Prize Ceremony

London Symphony Orchestra

The National Youth Choirs of Great Britain

From East Anglia to Carnegie Hall

Tom has conducted at Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Tomaskirche in Leipzig. He was a soloist in the BBC Proms, sang the National Anthem at Twickenham, at performed at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm.

He has led Come and Sing workshops for the BBC Proms with the help of the BBC Singers, and is the Music Director of Cohere Arts’ WitchFinder project.

Tom was the Music Director of the Waltham Forest – London Borough of Culture’s ‘Giant: A Tree Climbing Concert’ with professionals, children and community choirs all singing from the tree tops in Epping Forest.

Currently, Tom the Director of Music at Aldeburgh Music Club – who were formed by Benjamin Britten in 1952 – and leads a men’s singing group in a pub. He is Musician in Residence at Attleborough Music Project, and has worked with the English Chamber Orchestra, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera and Ballet, First Light Festival, Britten Pears Arts, and Gabrieli Roar on a number of high-profile performances and projects.

Tom’s work for MediSing’s ‘SingApp: Parkinsons’ was shortlisted as a finalist for Arts Council England’s Digital Inclusion Awards, and he regularly works with children in mainstream, homeschool, additional needs, and unaccompanied under-18-year-old refugee settings.

First rate training

None of this would have been possible without the first-rate training Tom achieved as a chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral, as a member of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, and when reading Music at the University of York.

Always interested in the full capabilities of the human voice, Tom makes all of the sounds you can hear in this recording of Charlotte Harding’s Turn Me As A Mirror To Myself.