Style Progressive and Creative Styles Jazz - Funk - Fusion - Pop - Ethnic Soloing Concepts in playing and creating Heel-toeing the hi-hat Getting around the toms by way of the cymbals Technique - Speed - Control - Endurance

Tommy has been on the staff at Berklee College of Music in Boston; The New School and Drummers Collective, both in New York City; Accademia Musica in Italy and Percussion Institute of Technology in Hollywood, California.

Tommy also enjoys working with young musicians. He has taught children at the Henry Street Settlement, a school for the arts in New York City.

Tommy, seated in center next to Franco Rossi, Founder and Director of Accademia Musica, with students at the Milano campus.

Tommy (center) with world renowned drummer Ed Thigpen (left) and author of "Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer", Jim Chapin (right).

"Charles Mingus - More Than a Play-Along" Two CDs featuring both trio and quiariet versions of fourteen classic Mingus compositions, performed by Mingus Big Band members. "Musical charts, performance notes, rare photographs and historical commentary."

Tommy teaches in many institutions worldwide, and also offers "Private Instruction". Tommy is first and foremost a artist and performer who is presently a dominant figure of THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SCENE. Tommy shares his years of experience and knowledge of being an International Musician through teaching.

Based in Tokyo, Japan, Tommy practices and teaches  at "STUDIO FORTE" in Roppongi, Tokyo.