Tom Rogerson

British improvisational pianist and composer Tom Rogerson has explored an array of styles ranging from jazz to post-rock and ambient music. Born in Suffolk, he took up the piano during childhood and went on to train at the Royal Academy of Music with Harrison Birtwistle. In the early 2000s he launched a series of solo improvisational concerts, making his first appearance at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2002. A brief relocation to New York City followed, during which he cut his self-titled debut album alongside bassist Reid Anderson of the Bad Plus and saxophonist Michael Lewis of Happy Apple in 2005. After settling in London he collaborated closely with singer-songwriter Jeremy Warmsley and, in 2007, co-founded the electronic post-rock trio Three Trapped Tigers with Adam Betts and Matt Calvert. The group issued three EPs from 2008 to 2010, later gathered as Numbers: 1-13, and delivered its first full-length album, Route One or Die, in 2011. That same year Rogerson also recorded Cable Street Shorts with saxophonist Tomas Challenger and contributed to projects by Hong Kong-born singer-songwriter Emmy the Great as well as experimental rock trailblazers the Red Krayola. Three Trapped Tigers returned with their second album, Silent Earthling, shaped through Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies system, in 2016. Rogerson’s subsequent partnership with Eno produced the album Finding Shore, issued by Dead Oceans in December 2017.