BIOGRAPHY
With a sound described as “remarkable” and “beautifully warm” (Herald Times), early clarinetist Thomas Carroll is quickly establishing himself as one of the up and coming members of the Early Music community. After completing the B.M. degree from Oberlin Conservatory, he studied with Eric Hoeprich at Indiana University’s Early Music Institute, receiving the M.M. degree in Early Music, before traveling to Holland for additional post-graduate study at the Royal Conservatoire (KC) in The Hague. Thomas has also studied early clarinet with Alan Hacker, Margaret Thornhill, and David Barnett.
Internationally, Thomas has performed in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany with the NJO Orchestra of the 19th Century under Jos van Immerseel, and has performed in orchestra and fringe concerts at the Musica Antiqua Festival in Brugge, the Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin, the Dordrecht Bach Festival, and Muziekzomer Gelderland. As a soloist, Thomas has been featured with Lyra Baroque, Ensemble ad Libitum, the Indiana University Baroque Orchestra, and the Oberlin BPI Faculty Orchestra. In the United States, he has performed with such groups as Mercury Baroque, Allegro con brio, and the Festival Orchestra of the Bloomington Early Music Festival (BLEMF) and is also a founding member of the wind quintet Pent-a-Vent and the trio Ein Musikalischer Spaß.
Thomas is also active as a replica period clarinet builder. He
studied instrument construction with Paul Beekhuizen, Linda
Shortridge, and Rob Turner. He currently plays the music of Mozart and Süssmayr on a basset clarinet of his own design, based on the Riga Drawing.
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