Thomas Joyce (bass trombone) is in his fourteenth season as bass trombonist of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. Tom graduated the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA) summa cum laude in 1991 with degrees in Mathematics/Physics and Music and then pursued performance studies at the New England Conservatory and Boston University. Tom is a member of Burning River Brass, a professional twelve-piece brass ensemble based in Cleveland; he can be heard on that ensemble's five CD's. Tom spends his summers as a member of the Breckenridge (CO) Music Festival Orchestra, is a frequent substitute for the Rochester (NY) Philharmonic, and in 2005 performed in the Seattle Opera production of Wagner's “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” He maintains an active teaching studio and coaches students at the Charleston County School of the Arts.
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