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Tom Landschoot is a Belgian-American cellist and pedagogue.

Tom Landschoot has performed as a soloist with the National Orchestra of Belgium, Frankfurt Chamber Orchestra, Prima la Musica (Belgium), Shieh Chien Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan), Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan), Tempe Symphony, Orchestra of the United States Army Band, Scottsdale Philharmonic, Loja Symphony Orchestra (Ecuador), Quinca Symphony Orchestra, (Ecuador) and Symfonie Orkest Vlaanderen (Belgium). As an avid chamber musician, he has been a member of the Rossetti String Quartet since 2013. He has also performed with the Takács, Dover and Arianna Quartets and with members of the Cleveland, Vermeer, Tokyo and Orion Quartets. Other chamber music collaborations include Gilbert Kalish, Martin Katz, Kevin FitzGerald, Anton Nel, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Cho-Liang Lin, Martin Beaver, Lynn Harrell and Peter Wiley.

Landschoot has premiered numerous new compositions, including the “Tumbleweed Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2012)” by Belgian composer Frank Nuyts’ with Symfonie Orkest Vlaanderen, conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig at Bozar Brussels, Concertgebouw Brugge and de Bijloke Gent, and a double concerto written for clarinet, cello and orchestra by Dirk Brossé. Landschoot’s recordings are available on Summit, Organic, ArchiMusic, Kokopelli and Centaur Records. Landschoot has served as a faculty member at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, The Castleman Quartet Program in New York, Killington Music Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, Foulger International Music Festival, High Peaks, Madeline Island Chamber Music, Manchester, Montecito and Texas Music Festival. He has given master classes at conservatories and universities throughout Asia, the U.S., Europe and South America.

Landschoot is the founder and the artistic director of the Sonoran Chamber Music Series in Arizona and the President of the Arizona Cello Society. He is a Professor of Cello at Arizona State University. Prior to joining the music faculty at ASU School of Music, Landschoot taught at the University of Michigan.

Landschoot started studying cello with his father, who was a cellist in the National Orchestra of Belgium and then embarked on studies with Steven Caeyers, France Springuel, Mirel Iancovici, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, János Starker, Erling Blöndal Bengtsson and Bernard Greenhouse et al.

Landschoot previously played a 1830 Giovanni Batista Pressenda, a 1760 Nicolò Gagliano and a 1709 Antonio Stradivari that belonged to the ChiMei Culture Foundation in Taiwan. He currently performs on a cello made in 1776 by Tomasso Ballestrieri, which he pairs with bows made by Dominque Peccatte and François Xavier Tourte.

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