Growing Up
Tom: My dad loves music and was the one who taught both my brother and I violin.
Nicole: Funnily enough my parents don’t have very much to do with music – though my mom loves the old classics.
Inspirations
T: No hard musical favourites – in fact it definitely spans across genres. Anything that provokes thought drives me.
N: Generally we pull inspiration from a range of things. Tom’s currently working in architecture and my background is in marketing and brand.
Your Band
N: Tom and I have been running anon. for three years now. We perform mostly as a piano trio with cellist Tim Hennessy and are constantly coming up with creative collaboration concepts around classical music, to reimagine the live experience, shake it up, bring new audiences in.
T: The current film and music project we are running, Trailer Music II has been such a great way of exploring how much music drives imagination and storytelling. Our filmmakers Leigh Miller, John Paul Tansey, Andrew English, Roxie Halley and Christian D’Alessi have certainly stepped up to this creative challenge.
The Music You Make
Everything from the classical masterpieces of Beethoven and Shostakovich, to contemporary Australian works written within the last 2 years. There’s so much out there that we’re constantly discovering, and constantly sharing with our audience. With Trailer Music II we wanted to highlight just how powerful music was in driving on-screen direction, flip the creative film making process on its head, and let the music drive everything else.
