Online tuition · Creative mentoring
Develop the playing. Shape the music.
Focused one-to-one support for flute players and composers — grounded in performance experience, musical craft and the living language of Irish traditional music.
Ways to work together
Two focused paths.
Each engagement begins with the musician, the music and the question at hand.
Sessions are shaped around your experience and aims. Depending on the work, the most useful format may be a single conversation or a short series of lessons.
Online flute tuition
Find greater freedom in your playing.
One-to-one online lessons for flute players who want to deepen their technique, understanding and musical voice. The work is personal rather than syllabus-led.
Drawing on a life in Irish traditional music alongside classical flute study, Tom helps players connect sound and technique with phrasing, rhythm and the character of the music.
Traditional phrasing, rhythm and ornamentation
Tone, breath and flute technique
Repertoire, style and interpretation
Practice direction and musical confidence
Suitable for: Irish flute players, classical flautists exploring traditional music, and musicians returning to the instrument.
Ask about tuitionNew · Composer & arranger mentoring
Write within the tradition. Shape the orchestral soundscape.
For composers and arrangers exploring how to write within the Irish traditional idiom in an orchestral setting, hybrid ensemble or wider soundscape.
Drawing on Tom’s work as a composer, arranger and conductor with traditional musicians and folk orchestra, sessions offer constructive outside ears at any useful stage of a project.
Write with tradition, not simply around it.
Traditional instruments, idiom and musical roles
Arranging tunes and ideas for larger ensemble
Orchestral form, texture, balance and colour
Soundscape, space and the world around the music
Notation that supports traditional musicians
Feedback on sketches, scores and recordings
This is a new one-to-one mentoring strand, initially available for a small number of projects.
Discuss a projectA simple beginning
How it works.
Fees, preparation and the session format are agreed clearly before anything is booked.
- 01
Send a short note.
Share your experience, what you would like to develop and your general availability. Composers can mention any materials already in progress.
- 02
Clarify the need.
A brief exchange establishes whether Tom is the right fit and whether one session or a short series would be most useful.
- 03
Agree the session.
The online format, fee, preparation and timing are confirmed in advance, so both sides know what to expect.
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What would you like to develop?
A few lines are enough to begin the conversation.
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