Tom Price (musician)

Tom Price, (born January 28, 1956), is an American composer, conductor and arranger, best known for his work in choral and orchestral music.

As director of the international choir, The Voices of Bahá, he has directed public concerts in more than forty countries over the past fifteen years, including performances in Carnegie Hall in New York, the Mozart Concert House in Vienna, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and dozens of fine auditoriums throughout the world. Price has conducted such orchestras as The Warsaw Philharmonic, The Czech National Symphony, The Budapest Symphony, The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Maly Moscow Symphony, and others. For fourteen years, he was musical director of the Sydney Bahá'í Temple Choir in Australia, and from 1989 to 1996 was musical director at the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.

In 1986 he collaborated with renowned Indian Composer Ravi Shankar in combining Indian and western musical elements for the opening and dedication of the Bahá'í House of Worship in New Delhi. He was the director of the 420-voice choir and 90-piece symphony orchestra for the second Bahá'í World Congress in New York in 1992. Price studied music composition at the University of Sydney in Australia, where he lived for 18 years, working as a composer, arranger and conductor of music for film, television and commercial recordings. He was responsible for several hit recordings in the pop and jazz fields in Australia, including producing and co-writing the double-platinum "Bad Habits" by singer Billy Field, which was the largest selling album in Australia in 1981. In 1983 he won the Gold Prize in songwriting at the 12th Tokyo Music Festival. Since moving to the United States in 1988, he has produced several fine choral, gospel and jazz recordings. He is currently composing music for a Pulitzer prize-winning Broadway play, and heads the independent recording label Claire Vision Productions in Tennessee.

Discography

"Bad Habits" – Billy Field (1981) Producer & Songwriter [ [http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=showDetail&currentBibRecord=000024306984&itemSeq=15&total=29&returnFunction=searchResults&term1=Vocal+series.&location1=Anywhere&scope=scope&parameter1=phrase&boolean1=and&reuseSearch=true&sessionId=reuseSearch02728D27A31FFA09D4F4CE7CC62CE7B11200944101053 MusicAustralia.org - Bad habits] Hosted by the National Library of Australia] ISBN 1876766263
"Try Biology" – Billy Field (1983) Producer & Songwriter
"I’m Easy" – Recorded by David Lee Roth (1986) Songwriter
"Songs of the Ancient Beauty" (1991) Composer, Conductor & Producer
"We Have Come to Sing Praises" (1993) Producer
"Music from the Second Bahá’í World Congress" (1994) Conductor
"Songs of the Ancient Beauty Volume 2" (1995) Composer, Conductor & Producer
"Bad Habits" – Recorded by David Lee Roth (1996) Songwriter
"Lift Up Your Voices and Sing Volume 1" (1997) Producer
"Lift Up Your Voices and Sing Volume 2" (1997) Producer
"Lift Up Your Voices and Sing Volume 3" (1997) Producer
"The Voices of Bahá in Concert" (2000)
"The Voices of Bahá in Carnegie Hall" (2002) Composer, Conductor & Producer
"Dedicated to You" – Rachael Price (2003) Producer
"Rachael Price & the Tennessee Terraplanes (2008) Producer
"The Good Hours - Rachael Price (2008) Producer

Trivia

*Price is the son of Hollywood screen actor John Shelton
*Price is the grand-nephew of Hollywood film director Edward Ludwig
*Price is the nephew of Hollywood film producer Julian Ludwig
*Price is the cousin of Hollywood film producer Tony Ludwig
*Price is the grandson of creationist and noted Seventh Day Adventist George McCready Price
*Price is the father of jazz singer Rachael Price
*Price is a member of the Bahá'í Faith

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