Tom Pierson is an American conductor, composer, musical director, film director, arranger, orchestrator, production crew, musician, and music lecturer.

At the age of 13, he debuted as a soloist with the Houston Symphony. He studied at the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...

 to become a classical pianist and later turned to jazz. He conducted Leonard Bernstein's

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...

 Mass at the Metropolitan Opera

Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...

. He has conducted other works as well, including Candide

Candide (operetta)

Candide is an operetta with music composed by Leonard Bernstein, based on the novella of the same name by Voltaire. The operetta was first performed in 1956 with a libretto by Lillian Hellman; but since 1974 it has been generally performed with a book by Hugh Wheeler which is more faithful to...

. He has scored films for Woody Allen

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...

, notably Manhattan

Manhattan (film)

Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen about a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl before eventually falling in love with his best friend's mistress...

, and Robert Altman's

Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...

 Quintet

Quintet (film)

Quintet is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film by Robert Altman produced in 1979. It features among others Paul Newman, Brigitte Fossey, Bibi Andersson, Fernando Rey, Vittorio Gassman and Nina Van Pallandt....

. He filmed Turkey Boy in Japan in 2008.

Work

• Songs from the movie "Turkey Boy", 2008, CD
• "Turkey Boy", 2008, DVD
• Deep Forest By Bruce Huebner, Zabu Tone Music ZT006, CD 2008, as pianist
• The Hidden Goddess, 2003, CD, ©Point of No Return Music (806635019475), AUTEUR
• Left, Right, 2001, CD
• Tom Pierson III, 1999, CD, Oglio Records
• Planet of Tears, 1990, CD
• American Playhouse
  American Playhouse
  American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.It premiered on January 12, 1982 with The Shady Hill Kidnapping, written and narrated by John Cheever and directed by Paul Bogart...
  
  , 1982, orchestrator; 1 episode - Working TV episode
• Popeye (film)
  Popeye (film)
  Popeye is a 1980 live-action film adaptation directed by Robert Altman and adapted from E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre aka Popeye comic strip.Marketed with the tagline, "The sailor man with the spinach can!", the film is a musical...
  
  , 1980, composer: additional score
• Manhattan (film)
  Manhattan (film)
  Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen about a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl before eventually falling in love with his best friend's mistress...
  
  , 1979, music adapted/arranged by
• Hair (film)
  Hair (film)
  Hair is a 1979 American film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center...
  
  , 1979, conductor/arranger, vocals, as Thomas Pierson
• Quintet (film)
  Quintet (film)
  Quintet is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film by Robert Altman produced in 1979. It features among others Paul Newman, Brigitte Fossey, Bibi Andersson, Fernando Rey, Vittorio Gassman and Nina Van Pallandt....
  
  , 1979
• A Perfect Couple
  A Perfect Couple
  A Perfect Couple is a 1979 film directed by Robert Altman.- Plot :An older man, played by Paul Dooley, tries romancing a younger woman, played by Marta Heflin. She is part of a travelling band of bohemian musicians who perform gigs in outdoor arenas around the country. He joins them on the road...
  
  , 1979, Orchestra Conductor
• The World of Magic, NBC 1975, hosted by Bill Cosby, as Music Director

External links

• Tom Pierson biography, Senzoku Gakuen College of Music
  Senzoku Gakuen College of Music
  is a private university in Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, established in 1967. A women's school, was founded in 1924. The present name was adopted in 2003. The college shares its campus with Senzoku Gakuen Junior College‎....
  
   (in Japanese)
• Tom Pierson Profile, Kunitachi College of Music
  Kunitachi College of Music
  The is a private music school in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1926 as the Tokyo Conservatory of Music.It is located at Kashiwa-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo.-Notable alumni:*Masamichi Amano, composer*Ahn Eak-tai, composer and conductor...