"Thollem is half pianist, half hurricane" - Steve Holje, Culture Catch
Thollem is a pianist, keyboardist, composer, improviser, singer-songwriter, activist, author and teacher. He has toured throughout North America and Europe as an itinerant artist for three decades, performing, teaching and collaborating in myriad situations across the idiomatic spectrum. His lifelong interest has been to work with people from all walks of life, bringing artists and communities together in ways that may create something uniquely valuable to everyone involved. He is currently focused primarily on his multimedia collaboration with New Mexican visual artist ACVilla, his solo piano work, his new autobiographical songs project Godammit Tommy!, and workshops on the collaborative process.