Thomas W. Reiner
Thomas W. Reiner

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.

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The Crossing

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Sierra Blue

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Sprinkler Installation

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Song in D minor

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Sweet Devil

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Russian Song

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The Magic City from Railroad Park

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Ruminations

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Piano Sonatine No. 3

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Piano Sonatine No. 2

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Piano Sonatine No. 1

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The Outback Safari Song

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Passages

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New Horizons

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The Pearl

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Natural Structures

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The Etude

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Mother's Day

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The River Shannon

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Imaginaria

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Ghost Cat

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Free as the Wind

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Thunder Snow

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Two-Step Blues

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For Winston Smith

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Flowers in the Wind

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Fantasy Like a Dream

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Espionage

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Cherie

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Bryce Point

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Impromptu VIII

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Impromptu VII

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Closure

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Awakening

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Impromptu VI

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Impromptu V

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Impromptu IV

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Manifest Destiny

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Fly Away Bird

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Autumn Nights

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Lorem Ipsum

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Nocturne III

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Nocturne II

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Nocturne I

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Lyric Piece II

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Lyric Piece III

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Lyric Piece I

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Impromptu III

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Impromptu II

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Impromptu I

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Art Song

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Gothicus

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Alpha Centauri

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Closure

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All Hallow's Eve

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Headlands

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Endless Journey

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Scherzo

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Perpetual Motion

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The Sense of Ennui

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Cloudscape

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A New Chapter

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Blue

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Sunset in Daphne

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The Colossal

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Serenity

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The Memory Palace

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Pastel

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Finding the Way

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Beyond the Horizon

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Vignettes

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February

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Crystalline

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Ilios

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Diplodocus Apotheosis

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Arctic Tern

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Genus Chromaticum

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The Tao of Piano

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Taking the Journey

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Williston Park

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A Jazz Theme

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A Festive Song

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