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Tom W. Burchill

Brasuka
Fort Worth, TX

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Tom Burchill is a professional guitarist, teacher and award winning jazz band director, gifted arranger and composer in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. An active freelance guitarist, he performs frequently throughout the metroplex and has impacted many lives through his teaching and his music.
TEACHING:
Tom Burchill is the jazz guitar instructor at Texas Christian University, and part of the jazz faculty at Tarleton State University. Tom also teaches private guitar at the University of Texas at Arlington. Tom held the position of jazz band director at Weatherford College for 13 years. He is highly sought-after clinician and private instructor and teaches at jazz education camps each summer. During his tenure as a jazz educator, he has had the privilege of performing with a variety of jazz artists including Clark Terry, Peanuts Hucko, Joey Defrancesco, Randy Brecker, Peter Erskine, Marcel Ivory, David Fathead Newman, James Clay, Marvin Stamm, John Fedchock, Bill Watrous, and Phil Woods among others.
An excellent motivation teacher, Tom is proud of the students he has had the privilege to teach. Altogether his students have won more than 20 Grammy awards and have gone on to play with such artists as Snarky Puppy, Count Basie Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, The Lincoln Center Band, Leon Bridges, Little Big Town, Tori Kelly, Miranda Lambert, Kirk Franklin, Toby Keith, Erika Badu, Prince, Snoop Dogg, Frank Foster, Mumford and Sons, Tedeschi Trucks and Sheryl Crow.
PERFORMANCE
Tom has performed with a number of revered artists and was honored to accompany the late, great Luciano Pavarotti in February of 2002 at his performance at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. Tom plays regularly with the Fort Worth Symphony and has performed with artists such as Willie Nelson, Bernadette Peters, Michael Feinstein, Monica Mancini and Art Garfunkel.
Tom is a member of the local group, BRASUKA which plays original Brazilian jazz in a style reminiscent of Sergio Mendez. Their first project of all original compositions is to be released in the fall of 2021. They performed the JEN conference in Dallas (2018), the Denton Arts and Jazz Festival (2019) and play frequently throughout the area.
EDUCATION
Burchill earned a Bachelor’s degree in Classical Guitar Performance from the University of South Dakota and a Master’s degree in Jazz at the University of North Texas where he was part of the jazz band, small groups, guitar ensembles and jazz singers. His website is http:// www.tomburchill.com

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