Tom Rogerson

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Tom Rogerson is a British musician. He is the founder of Three Trapped Tigers and has also made music with others, such as Finding Shore (2017) with Brian Eno. [1] [2] [3]

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Career

Rogerson is from Suffolk. [4] He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London [4] and lived for a time in New York City, where he played jazz [5] with Reid Anderson. He is the founder of Three Trapped Tigers, in which he sings and plays piano and keyboards. [6] [7] The Suffolk landscape inspired Finding Shore, on which Rogerson plays improvised piano. [5]

Discography

Solo

With Three Trapped Tigers

With others

With contributions by Rogerson

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