Tommy Davis embraces a versatile career in music. He is driven by the desire to collaborate with multifaceted artists in co-composed or co-improvised projects and to share the results within his community and abroad. Integrating saxophone and technology, he explores interactions between performer physicality and electronic media while blurring boundaries between genres. Tommy is committed to nurturing space for music creation and experimentation and he volunteers to organize the Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, a summer workshop held annually in Montreal.
Tommy lives for chamber music and is a founding member of the Proteus Saxophone Quartet, the Duo d’Entre-Deux, Revolution Ensemble, and Ensemble AKA. He is an active improviser in the Montreal scene often performing at Mardi Spaghetti, Sala Rossa, Café Résonance, and La Sotterenea in solo and group settings. Equally at home interpreting classical music and transcriptions with the Proteus Quartet, he has performed across Canada with Prairie Debut, Müzewest Concerts, and Debut Atlantic.
A committed interpreter and commissioner of new music, he has performed for the Huddersfield New Music Festival, Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn), Cambridge University (UK), Sonorities Festival (Belfast), Music in New Technologies Forum (Halifax), Calgary New Music Festival, Strata New Music Festival (Saskatoon), Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec, No Hay Banda (Montreal), and the Suoni per il Popolo Festival (Montreal). Recent projects include collaborators such as Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Gordon Fitzell, Takuto Fukuda, Kevin Gironnay, Vincent Ho, Colin Labadie, Stephanie Orlando, Ofer Pelz, and Paul Suchan.
Tommy is a dedicated educator and mentors young saxophonists in the arts-études program at the Joseph-François-Perrault high school in addition to running a private teaching studio. He has performed masterclasses and guest artist recitals at universities across Canada and the Midwest USA. Tommy is currently a Doctoral Candidate and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music under the tutelage of Marie-Chantal Leclair. His research investigates live electronic music performance and computer improvisation through a research-creation project called eTu{d,b}e.