TOM WOOD is a former instrumental exhibitioner and graduate from Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied music. A piano student of the Suzuki Method since the age of four, he has performed many times in conjunction with the National Suzuki Association including events at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, the Barbican and the Royal Festival Hall. In 1999, Tom won the overall Music Award at the Cambridge Arts Festival and gained a High Honours for the Guildhall Recital Certificate. He continued instrumental studies during his gap year at the Royal College of Music under Niel Immelman, with whom he still learns.

As a Jazz pianist, Tom won the 2000 Cambridge Arts Festival outright with the Coffee House Quintet which he co-directed, and proceded to represent Cambridgeshire with two performances at the Leeds Millennium Festival. In 2001 the group enjoyed three sell-out dates for Cambridge Modern Jazz Club. During his gap year in London, Tom's piano trio gigged extensively around the capital, including performances at St. James' Palace, Kensington Palace and a summer engagement as part of the International Music Festival in Kavala, Greece. Tom has featured as part of the Ison-Wood Quartet at the Generations Jazz Festival in London, and he continues to gig extensively.