- Nickname
- Tony
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Anthony Tobin has performed across the US, Canada, The Netherlands, and in Brazil, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. He tours as soloist, chamber musician, and with the Austin Eurythmy Ensemble, a group that combines dance, music, poetry, and lights. In 2005 Tobin recorded Beethoven piano sonatas for the feature film "The Quiet", directed by Jamie Babbit. Tobin is heard playing the piano in the beginning of the trailer for the film. In addition to recording in film composer Jeff Rona's Santa Monica studio, Tobin worked daily for three weeks with actresses Camilla Belle and Elisha Cuthbert as Piano Coach and Technical Advisor. Tobin attended the world premiere of "The Quiet" September 10, 2005 at the 30th Toronto International Film Festival.
Since the sense of place and the visual and kinetic qualities of different regions of the world inspire Tobin's art, he is experimenting with photographs and Mini-DV video. Tobin is creating video art that combines mosaic, superimposed, and footage that features different aspects of motion with improvised music. Tobin has traveled to Japan, France and Switzerland to film, and is working on a documentary about the French composer Claude Debussy.
Anthony Tobin was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and graduated from Ithaca High School in New York. He was a scholarship student at Tanglewood with Anthony di Bonaventura, studied piano with Malcolm Bilson at Cornell University, and won the Junior Baldwin Piano Competition. Tobin received a Bachelor of Music with Distinction from the Eastman School of Music with Anton Nel and played with the Eastman Wind Orchestra. He earned a Master of Music from the University of Southern California where he served as Daniel Pollack's teaching assistant, studied piano pedagogy with Marienne Uszler, and was inducted into the music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda. In 2002 he received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied piano with Greg Allen, piano pedagogy with Martha Hilley, and completed a dissertation with Elliott Antokoletz that explores abstract pitch relations in Debussy piano preludes.
In addition to maintaining a private piano studio of all ages in Austin, Texas, Tobin has taught at the University of Southern California, the University of Texas, Laredo Community College, at Kirby Hall School, and for the motion picture industry.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anthony Aubrey Tobin
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