Percussion

Tomoya Aomori

An alumnus of COS, Tomoya Aomori currently studies Percussion with Daniel Druckman and Double Bass with Homer Mensch at The Juilliard School. Recipient of numerous honors, Mr. Aomori won the Berklee College of Music Outstanding Musicianship Awards and the Judges' Choice Award for his performances on jazz drums and jazz bass.

As a bassist, he was among the winners of the Juilliard Pre-College String Honors Competition in 1999 and won the Pre-College Open Concerto Competition in 2001 and 2003. He was a finalist of the 2001 New York Philharmonic Young Artists Competition and the first prize winner in the International Society of Bassists (ISB) Young Bassist Competition in 2003.

Mr. Aomori made his recital debut in 2002 in Japan and performed another recital in the summer of 2005. He has participated on full scholarship in the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Salzau, Germany in 2002 & 2003 and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan in 2005. As a percussionist, he performed the Schwantner Percussion concerto with the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra in 2004 and world premiered Jay Greenberg's "Selected Short Stories" for Saxophone, Percussion, and Orchestra with the same ensemble in Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center in June of 2005. He also performed Paul Creston's Concertino for Marimba and Orchestra as a featured soloist of the COS Scotland Tour.