Thomas Kotcheff is a Los Angeles-based composer and pianist.
Thomas Kotcheff is a Los Angeles-based composer and pianist. In addition to serving on the faculty at the Piano Talent Performance Academy, he additionally teaches theory at the Colburn School and composition at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship Program.
As a composer, his music has been performed internationally by the Riot Ensemble, wild Up, Sandbox Percussion, Trio Appassionata, the Argus Quartet, the Lyris Quartet, USC Thornton Edge, the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, HOCKET, and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble.
Thomas has received awards and honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presser Foundation, the Aspen Summer Music Festival, BMI, ASCAP, the New York Youth Symphony, the National Association of Composers USA, the American Composers Forum, and has been a composition fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s National Composers Intensive, the Aspen Summer Music Festival and School, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence.
As a new music pianist, Thomas has dedicated himself to commissioning and premiering new piano works. He is the pianist and founding member of the Los Angeles based piano duo HOCKET and he holds degrees in composition and piano performance from the Peabody Institute and the University of Southern California.
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