Thomas Lumley was born in village of Aberdyfi on the west coast of Mid-Wales (UK), he began playing music at the age of 4 but from the outset he had high expectations of himself. Finding jazz and the saxophone at age 12 he performed with the Gwynedd and Angelsey Youth Jazz Orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall at the age of 15 and hasn’t looked back since! After Graduating with a first class BA honours degree from the prestigious jazz course at Leeds College of Music in 2008 Tom’s skills lay in his uncanny improvisational ability and unique creative approach to the saxophone and the jazz idiom. With interests and influences from the jazz world along with keen interests in Contemporary Improvised music, Balkan folk music, Hudustani Classical music, Afro Cuban music and DIY Avant Guard Electronica Tom has a very broad palette of tastes and knowledge. Tom’s main musical focus is involved with the acute and detailed processes of improvisation. His interests lay in how the combinations of musical elements from separate genres can lay on top of each other and how both academic processes and emotive urges and senses can be combined to produce wonderfully elaborate music without the need for pre-learned scores or musical preconceptions. Recently he studied (2010-2012) for a Master of Music course at the Conservatory in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) funded by the Arts Council of Wales’ Advanced study award program specializing in research on the use of Low Tech electronics within freely improvised music and its application practically and academically. Having performed with many artists, names including Tony Allen (Fela Kuti), Brian Jackson (Gil Scott-Heron), Mathew Bourne, Frank Vigroux, Chris Sharkey (Acoustic Lady Land, Trio Vd), Dave Kane, Huw Warren, along with being an active Member of LIMA (Leeds improvised Music Association) Tom is currently touring with the Rotterdam based Hip-Hop band Re:Freshed Orchestra, the Cologne (Germany) based free improv group Blemishes and has also toured in Cyprus and Spain performing with many outstanding musicians.