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This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 5, 2010.
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You're officially a part of the project! You get a genuine, warm hug from me next time I see you, and access to all updates that I post about the development of the project.
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hug and updates (see above), plus a free digital download of the entire album once it's released.
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all of the above, plus a signed hard copy of the CD, including all original artwork and liner notes.
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all of the above, plus a mix CD (or digital mixtape) made especially for you by Tom with the original music by Debussy that inspired the music on this recording (and maybe some other surprises)
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everything above, plus free admission to our CD release concert/party (date and location TBD)
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everything above, plus a live performance by the Thomas Bergeron Quintet at a venue of your choice. It could be your living room! (does not include the costs of renting a venue or traveling by air, if applicable)
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www.tombergeronmusic.com
Currently residing in Manhattan, Tom Bergeron has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia as a jazz and classical musician with orchestras, chamber groups, small jazz groups, show bands, as a soloist, and can be heard on the Naxos and Koch record labels.
He is a sought after teacher and clinician across the Northeast, currently serving as Studio Teacher of Trumpet, Director of Brass Chamber Music, and jazz coach at Williams College and Bennington College.
Tom is an active freelancer, working in all styles throughout New York, New England, and beyond. He currently serves as principal trumpet with the Berkshire Symphony, plays regularly with the Vermont Symphony, and performs every Sunday afternoon with his jazz trio at Julius’ in the West Village of Manhattan.
Mr. Bergeron holds an M.M. and an A.D. in Trumpet Performance from Yale, where he received the John Swallow Award for excellence in brass playing and won the Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition. Tom also holds a B.A. in Business Management from The Isenberg School at UMass. While at Yale, Tom served as Assistant Director of the Yale Jazz Ensemble and as a T.A. for Allan Dean, teaching Yale College trumpet students.
As an educator, Tom recently created the "Music and Creative Writing" outreach program in New Haven's public school system. During regular visits to inner-city school classrooms, Tom helped young students write stories inspired by his original jazz compositions, and then incorporated their writings into the pieces.
As a founding member of the Reveille Trumpet Collective (www.reveilletrumpet.org), Tom has dedicated himself to the progressive new music movement, and in particular, exploring new relationships between composers and performers, and new ways of conceiving, performing, and presenting contemporary music to reach wider audiences. In 2009, Tom commissioned and premiered a Trumpet Concerto by Jay Wadley for trumpet, winds, and live electronics.
Mr. Bergeron has appeared as a soloist with the Hartford Symphony, has recorded with the Albany Symphony and Schola Cantorum, and has performed with The Smothers Brothers, Arlo Guthrie, The Triton Brass Quintet, Albany's Dogs of Desire, the I/O Ensemble, Orchestra New England, the New Hampshire Symphony, The New Haven Symphony, The Yale Philharmonia, and Emmanuel Music in Boston. He is a founding member of Brother Jocephus and the Love Revival Revolution Orchestra, and a seasonal player and Band Master with Carnival and Norwegian Cruise Lines. Tom also plays with the salsa bands Mikata and Agua Por Chocolate, and the pop group The Prescription.
