Tommy Seah

Born in Singapore, Tommy Seah began piano and violin lessons at the age of 4.

Tommy holds a Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Economics degrees from the University of Wester Australia, a Graduate Diploma in piano performance and a Master of Arts from West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). He has studied piano performance with Anna Sleptsova since 2005, privately and at WAAPA. Tommy has previously also studied with Leslie Howard and Seta Tanyel.

As a solo pianist and chamber musician, Tommy has performed across Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America, and has competed in prestigious international piano competitions including Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Almaty International Piano Competition, Australian Chopin International Piano Competition, and Franz Liszt International Piano Competition Bayreuth-Weimar. In both 2017 and 2018, Tommy received the Menahem Pressler Foundation Scholarship to study at the Adamant International Piano Summer School in Vermont, USA.

Tommy is a sessional lecturer at WAAPA. His research interests are in the piano performance styles and performance practices of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and early recorded sounds. He has been a speaker at the Historical Performance Institute of the Jacobs School of Music (University of Indiana, Bloomington), and for the Musicological Society of Australia Conference.