ABOUT 

Thomas Schinabeck is a saxophonist, flutist, and composer from Cleveland, Ohio. He creates music rooted in the tradition of Black American Music and is also influenced by music from around the world, as well as the sounds of everyday life. Thomas hopes to use music to bring people together in spaces filled with love and openness, so that we can love ourselves, each other, and our planet more deeply.

Thomas has had the opportunity to share the stage with world-class artists such as Warren Wolf, Joel Ross Terence Blanchard, Sean Jones, Fran Vielma, Dominick Farinacci and Patrick Bartley. Thomas has performed with his own band, playing his compositions, throughout Ohio at the Tri-C Jazz Festival, Bopstop and BluJazz+, as well as throughout the DMV area, at An Die Musik, Keystone Korner, Mr. Henry’s and Baltimore School for the Arts. During the summer of 2023, Thomas performed in a midwest tour with the Stephen Philip Harvey Octet.

Thomas was awarded Outstanding Alto Saxophone Performance at the 2022 Jack Rudin Competition held at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He was a National Youngarts Winner in 2020 and 2021 and a member of the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra led by Gerald Clayton in 2020. He currently attends the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore where he studies with Tim Green.