Thomas Wenglinski Quintet - Live at Monks

Tue, Aug 08

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for Thomas Wenglinski Quintet! Thomas Wenglinksi - Piano Paulo Santos - Saxophones Joel White - Guitar James Suter - Double Bass Gavin Moolchan - Drums Thomas Wenglinski is a composer, arranger, and pianist from Houston, Texas. Born into a musical family, he was raised on a variety of musical influences, eventually finding a voice as a jazz pianist and composer. After graduating high school in 2016, he headed west to UT-Austin, where he studied these two crafts with Jeff Hellmer and Dr. John Mills respectively, composing extensively for the school’s Jazz Orchestra and building a career as a gigging jazz pianist. In 2020, he moved eastward to the University of Miami, where he has since completed his M.M. in Studio Jazz Writing and currently pursues a D.M.A. in Jazz Composition as a teaching assistant under the direction of Dr. Stephen Guerra. In his first decade as a working musician and student, Thomas has composed/arranged for and/or performed with artists such as Christian Wiggs, BluMoon, Joe Lovano, Tom Scott, Daniel Dufour, Christopher Cross, Tatiana “LadyMay” Mayfield, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, and Benny Benack III. Thomas has released several self-produced albums and EPs, the most recent of which, “Adjustments Made”, features a variety of original compositions and guest contributions from several longtime Texas-based collaborators such as Clunis, Paulo Santos, Zach Kursman, Joel White and Aaron Garcia. His upcoming big band debut release, “This is Where I Must Go”, is expected within the year. Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! 22 free parking spaces onsite are first-come-first-serve.