Tom studied the trombone at the Royal Northern College of Music, before becoming the first full-time student of the sackbut at the Royal College of Music, winning a Countess of Munster musical scholarship to continue his early music studies there. Since then, Tom has regularly performed and recorded with many of the specialist period instrument ensembles at home and abroad and is a full time member of the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble and the City Musick. 

Performing on ‘historical’ trombones, Tom has recorded music for a number of tv and film sessions, including Wolf Hall, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Shrek the Third and Pride and Prejudice, in which he also appears in the film playing an early 18th century trombone.