Tom Lillington, a professional vocalist and pianist, keeps busy with a wide range of activities in the Toronto area.  As well as maintaining a full schedule as a Certified Piano Technician, Tom is also an accomplished composer (BFA, York University 1994), accompanist, arranger, director and vocalist performing with various different groups.

As well as being an original member of the Nathaniel Dett Chorale and singing part-time with the Elora Festival Singers, he is also a founding member of The Canadian Chamber Choir, a professional touring ensemble comprised of singers from across the country with the mandate to promote Canadian composers and conductors while bringing top-level choral music to smaller regions and towns which would not otherwise have access.

He sang with 80’s band Retrocity as well as Hampton Avenue, an award-winning acappella group (named 1999’s Jazz Vocal Group of the Year by Jazz Report Magazine) which has performed on CBC’s The Vinyl Café with Stuart Maclean and has three popular albums to its credit.

Tom’s bass voice can be heard singing in many jingles, soundtracks and recordings, and

as a writer he is entering his 10^th season as composer and music director of the Driftwood Theatre Company, a touring outdoor Shakespeare company dedicated to reaching out to audiences in urban and rural communities across the Ontario that do not have access to professional classical theatre.