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 Ron Thomas plays jazz, classical
and improvisation on the piano. His compositions cover all these
styles of music, which he teaches as well.
Blues for Zarathustra, with Paul Klinefelter on acoustic Bass, is Ron's most recent release. Other recent releases are Wings of the Morning, Cycles and Doloroso. Click here for details.
Reviews and Interviews:
Listen On-Line:
You can listen on-line to excerpts from Wings of the Morning on the Tarnius Music and CDBaby.com websites, where CDs may be purchased. Individual tracks are available from iTunes.
On this website: full-length MP3 files of previously unreleased work.
 The Music in Three Parts musicians can also be heard on the 2007 Denis DiBlasio Quintet recording, Where the Jade Buddha Lives.
Ron Thomas' music is heard on SKY.FM/SoloPiano.
Events
The Ron Thomas Duo currently performs live once a week in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. As well, his compositions are being performed by others. Click here to learn more.
Click here to see details of the seven Les Three concerts, 1999-2006.
Teaching
Ron is currently teaching at:
The
Music Centre, Exton, Pennsylvania and
The
Wilmington Music School, Delaware.
I also teach at my home studio. I
would be delighted to work with you
either in person or through an on-line
arrangement. Click
here to find out how.
Essays
“A fascination with things distant ... The everyday impression,
sentiment, experience ... An obscurity of a different order
... The hyper-beautiful musical event ... A subterfuge clearly
designed as a cover for capricious quasi-aimless ecstatic reading
and listening of music ... ”
Click here to see Ron's essays.
 Recordings
“Here, invent; there, remember. Wandering in place, finding, losing and giving away.”
Click
here to see a list of Ron's recordings.
Biography
“What is well-loved in youth never disappears. It is always present in some form or other however wayward or submerged.” --Robin Holloway. "Somewhere around 1900, Eleazar Thomas migrated from Wales to settle in the coal-mining community of Dickson City, Pennsylvania . . ." Click here to see the complete fragments.
 Influences and Friends
John Cage, Elliot Carter, Ron Dewar, Jon English, Bill Evans, Nicolas Flagello, Vittorio Gianinni, Hellmut Gottschild, Sir Roland Hanna, Pat Martino, M. William (Bill) Karlins, Sal Martirano, Will Parsons, Hobson Pittman, Raoul Pleskow, Michael Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Igor Stravinsky, Ludmila Ulehla, Stefan Wolpe, and many more. [In the photo at the left, we see, from left to right: Ron Thomas, Bill Karlins, Raoul Pleskow, Austin Clarkson and Ed Levy at the 1998 Conference Crosscurrents in Jazz and New Music: The School and Schooling of Stefan Wolpe" Temple University, Philadelphia, 1998.]
 Compositions
A list of selected works by Ron Thomas with assorted images of his work in progress.
67 Photos: Images from a life full of musicians and their music.
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Photos by Shane McCauley: of Ron Thomas in 2007.
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
A collaboration of writer Paul Auster and artist/printmaker Glenn Thomas.
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