Join Tom Clearly and friends for this special performance demonstrating the versatility of jazz piano. The performance will feature jazz trio, solo piano, piano/bass duo pieces, and jazz trio pieces with bass, voice, and piano. Tom will be joined by bassist Jeremy Hill and vocalist Amber deLaurentis.

Tom Cleary studied jazz improvisation with Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp, and classical piano performance with  Sylvia Parker and Elizabeth Metcalfe.  He has had extended collaborations playing piano and keyboards with artists including Mike Gordon, James Harvey, Ray Vega, Patricia Julien, and Jamie Masefield.  His collaboration with his wife, vocalist and composer Amber deLaurentis, in the jazz quartet Birdcode can be heard on the 2019 album You Are Here.  He has played on jazz recordings including Cerulean by harmonicist John LaRouche, Burmese Panther by guitarist/composer Paul Asbell, and recent releases including Now And Then by saxophonist and flutist Marty Fogel and the debut album by Saturn People's Sound Collective.  His work as an arranger, lyricist and co-writer can be heard on deLaurentis' solo albums Innocent Road, Hey Sadie and this year’s Space Invader.  He has accompanied artists including Clark Terry, Lester Bowie, Fontella Bass, Ernie Watts, Chris Vidala, Pete Yellin, Max Weinberg, Judi Silvano, Joe Lovano, Joan Rivers and Steve Earle.  As a composer, his work has been commissioned and recorded by groups including Social Band, Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Saint Michael's College Fine Arts Department, where he composed and compiled the score for the musical 2017 musical Mill Girls, a collaboration with director/playwright Peter Harrigan that was recently revived in an online production now available on YouTube.  He teaches in the jazz studies program of the UVM Music Department, the Flynn Arts jazz program and his home studio; please visit https://soundcloud.com/bird-code and blog.uvm.edu/tgcleary.

Tickets will be available at www.mpa-hub.org (available soon!) or at the venue before the event. $20 for adults and $10 for children under 18.