Biography
Welcome to Dr. Tom Reiner's profile page. Tom is an American composer based in Montgomery, Alabama. He is also an Associate Professor of Psychology at Troy University in Troy, Alabama.
Tom studied piano at the American River School of the Arts (1983-1987) and the Pease Conservatory in Sacramento, California (1989-1991). He was awarded the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award for piano performance in 1987. He studied music in college but would go on to complete a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2005. His doctoral dissertation investigated how people remember melodies. Tom studied music composition with Stephen Blumberg at California State University, Sacramento from 2003-2005 and with Joseph T. Spaniola at the University of West Florida from 2011-2015. He also studied Orchestration with Ben Newhouse and Arranging Woodwinds and Strings with Jerry Gates at the Berklee College of Music from 2016-2017.
Tom teaches courses on the Psychology of Music and Speical Topics in Creativity among others. He is a member of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. He is also a member of the National Association of Composers/USA (NACUSA). He composes music primarily for piano and small chamber ensembles. He has been a member of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance since 2015. He was awarded the Commissioned Composer of the Year award in 2016 by the Alabama Music Teachers Association. The character of Tom's music ranges from new age piano music to modern classical music.
Collection
The Crossing
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Sierra Blue
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Sprinkler Installation
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Song in D minor
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Music for solo piano
Sweet Devil
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Music for solo piano
Russian Song
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Music for solo piano
The Magic City from Railroad Park
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Music for solo piano
Ruminations
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Music for solo piano
Piano Sonatine No. 3
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Music for solo piano
Piano Sonatine No. 2
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Piano Sonatine No. 1
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
The Outback Safari Song
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Music for solo piano
Passages
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Music for solo piano
New Horizons
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Music for solo piano
The Pearl
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Music for solo piano
Natural Structures
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Music for solo piano
The Etude
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Music for solo piano
Mother's Day
Music for solo piano
The River Shannon
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Music for solo piano
Imaginaria
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Music for solo piano
Ghost Cat
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Music for solo piano
Free as the Wind
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Music for solo piano
Thunder Snow
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Music for solo piano
Two-Step Blues
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Music for solo piano
For Winston Smith
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Music for solo piano
Flowers in the Wind
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Music for solo piano
Fantasy Like a Dream
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Music for solo piano
Espionage
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Music for solo piano
Cherie
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Music for solo piano
Bryce Point
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Music for solo piano
Impromptu VIII
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Music for solo piano
Impromptu VII
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Closure
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Awakening
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Music for solo piano
Impromptu VI
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Impromptu V
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Impromptu IV
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Manifest Destiny
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Music for solo piano
Fly Away Bird
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Music for solo piano
Autumn Nights
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Music for solo piano
Lorem Ipsum
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Music for solo piano
Nocturne III
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Music for solo piano
Nocturne II
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Music for solo piano
Nocturne I
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Lyric Piece II
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Music for solo piano
Lyric Piece III
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Music for solo piano
Lyric Piece I
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Music for solo piano
Impromptu III
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Impromptu II
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Impromptu I
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Art Song
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Music for solo piano
Gothicus
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Music for solo piano
Alpha Centauri
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Music for solo piano
Closure
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Music for solo piano
All Hallow's Eve
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Music for solo piano
Headlands
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Music for solo piano
Endless Journey
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Music for solo piano
Scherzo
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Music for solo piano
Perpetual Motion
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Music for solo piano
The Sense of Ennui
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Music for solo piano
Cloudscape
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Music for solo piano
A New Chapter
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Music for solo piano
Blue
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Music for solo piano
Sunset in Daphne
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Music for solo piano
The Colossal
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Music for solo piano
Serenity
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Music for solo piano
The Memory Palace
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Music for solo piano
Pastel
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Music for solo piano
Finding the Way
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Music for solo piano
Beyond the Horizon
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Music for solo piano
Vignettes
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Music for solo piano
February
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Music for solo piano
Crystalline
Thomas W. Reiner
Music for solo piano
Ilios
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Music for solo piano
Diplodocus Apotheosis
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Music for solo piano
Arctic Tern
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Music for solo piano
Genus Chromaticum
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Music for solo piano
The Tao of Piano
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Music for solo piano
Taking the Journey
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Music for solo piano
Williston Park
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Music for solo piano
A Jazz Theme
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Music for solo piano
A Festive Song
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Music for solo piano