Tom Cooke, Voce’s Executive Director, began his singing career as a treble with the choir of Men and Boys, Trinity Church On-the-Green, New Haven, Connecticut. He sang with the Harvard University Choir under John Ferris and with the Rockefeller Chapel Choir in Chicago under the direction of Victor Weber. Tom has extensive solo experience with a wide variety of choral groups and church choirs, and has appeared as Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors. He currently sings with two professional ensembles in the Hartford area – Concora and Voce – and with the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Choir. Tom also sang with The Woodland Scholars from 2004 to 2006. In addition to his choral work, Tom has performed voice recitals in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut. He currently studies voice with Herbert Burtis. In addition to his vocal work, Tom is a classically trained clarinetist and has performed extensively on the East Coast and in the Mid-West. He studied with Peter Mansfield and Pasquale Cardillo (Boston Symphony). He was also privileged to study for one summer with Franklin Cohen (Principal for the Cleveland Orchestra). Tom played with Harvard’s Bach Society Orchestra and, in 1982, won Harvard’s Horblitt Prize for a performance of the Brahms Clarinet Trio. In 1999, Tom accompanied Mr. Burtis and mezzo-soprano Barbara Rearick in their performance of Mozart’s Parto, ma tu ben mio (from Mozart’s La Clemenza di Titto) in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Tom and his family currently reside in West Hartford, Connecticut.