Tom Millar

Tom Millar is a London-based jazz pianist and composer, chair of the musicians' collective Way Out West, and graduate of the prestigious Royal Academy of Music jazz course. He is a regular performer on the jazz circuit, playing at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, QEH Foyer, King's Place, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Jazz Cafe and Bull's Head.

At the beginning of 2011 he formed a quartet with guitarist Alex Roth, bassist James Opstad and drummer Mike Clowes for which he writes much of the music. They will be performing regularly in 2014, as well as recording their debut album thanks to a grant from Jazz Services' Recording Support Scheme, ahead of a UK tour planned for early 2015. He has more recently put together a Nonet featuring the talents of Tim Whitehead, Tony Woods, Rob Cope, Laura Jurd, Alice Zawadzki, Jim Hart, Jon Scott and James Opstad. He has recently been given an Emerging Excellence Award by Help Musicians UK.