Phone
06 830 1577 Extension: 5477
Areas of Teaching
Contemporary Music
Qualifications
MMus (Comp); BMus (Perf)
Profile
Tom’s career as a professional percussionist has seen him perform and tour extensively both nationally and internationally. He has given master classes and ran workshops throughout the world, and has twice participated and performed at the prestigious Taiwan International Percussion Convention invitational.
Primarily a drumset specialist, the last few years have seen him work as a session player in Wellington – you can hear his work with such names as Rhian Sheehan, Strike Percussion, The Family Cactus and many more.
Research Outputs
Research outputs 2022
Pierard, T., & Lines, D. (2022). A constructivist approach to music education with DAWs. Teachers and Curriculum, 22(2), 135-145. https://doi.org/10.15663/tandc.v22i2.406
Pierard, T., Beckett, M., & Blow, N. (2022). Pass of change [Album]. Art as Catharsis.
Research outputs 2021
Pierard, T. (2021). Walk of Wonders (Hawke’s Bay Light and Fire Festival) [Score and sound design]. Bandolier.
Pierard, T., & Frear, M. (2021). Waiata o Hōhepa [Composition]. Bandolier.
Pierard, T., Grigorov, M., & Schwalbe, S. (2021). OST [Music; original soundtrack]. In Adam Ethan Crowe (Director), Lair [Feature film]. Ditto Productions.
Research outputs 2020
Pierard, T. (2020). The divergence of drumset function in popular music, and how DAWs can bridge the divide between drummers and beatmakers. International Journal of Music Science, Technology and Art (IJMSTA), 2(2), 1-7.
Pierard, T. (2020, July). Exploring integration of DAW processes for effective instrumental practise [Paper presentation]. Australasian Computer Music Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Pierard, T. (2020, June). War of the beatmakers: How non-drummers redefined the function of drums in popular music [Paper presentation]. International Conference of New Music Concepts, Treviso, Italy.
Pierard, T. (2020). Chunk with it [Music; original soundtrack]. In H. J. Weal (Director), Dead [Feature film]. Felicity. (Theatrical release September 2020)
Pierard, T. (2020). Cutting time [Music; original soundtrack]. In H. J. Weal (Director), Dead [Feature film]. Felicity. (Theatrical release September 2020).
Pierard, T. (2020). Dark times [Music; original soundtrack]. In H. J. Weal (Director), Dead [Feature film]. Felicity. (Theatrical release September 2020).
Pierard, T. (2020). Flipside [Theme music; original soundtrack]. In H. J. Weal (Director), Dead [Feature film]. Felicity. (Theatrical release September 2020)
Pierard, T. (2020). Moaning beautiful [Music; original soundtrack]. In H. J. Weal (Director), Dead [Feature film]. Felicity. (Theatrical release September 2020)
Pierard, T., Weal, H., & Walker, A. (2020). The charge [Music; original soundtrack]. In H. J. Weal (Director), Dead [Feature film]. Felicity. (Theatrical release September 2020)
Pierard, T. (2020, October 25). Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi (featuring Don McGlashan, Hollie Smith, Louis Baker and Whirimako Black) [Performing on drumset]. In Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival, Toitoi Opera House, Hastings, New Zealand.
Research outputs 2019
Pierard, T. (2019). To the roadside – Interpreting ideas of noise. Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music, 3(1), 25-33. http://riffsjournal.org/2019/04/26/riffs-volume-3-issue-1-april-2019/
Pierard, T. (2019, Summer). Listen up! Jo Jones Trio, 1958. The Drummer’s Journal, (17), 79-81. https://www.thedrummersjournal.com/issue-seventeen
Pierard, T. (2019, November). Recontextualising music education: Multimodal learning through a DAW lens. Paper presented at the 41st Conference of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education (ANZARME) 2019, Wellington, New Zealand.
Pierard, T. (2019, September). War of the beatmakers: How non-drummers redefined the function of drums in popular music. Paper presented at the Transplanted Roots 2019: Percussion Research Symposium, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Pierard, T. (Composer & Performer). (2019). Kindred. Guanajuato, Mexico: Universidad de Guanajuato, September 15, 2019.
Pierard, T. (Composer). (2019). Big Angry Fish. Season 8 Music [Television]. International.
Pierard, T. (Composer). (2019). Oderings tonal branding [Television]. National.
Pierard, T. (Composer). (2019). Big Save Furniture tonal branding [Radio and television]. National.
Pierard, T. (Composer). (2019). Rothbury tonal branding [Television]. National.
Research outputs 2018
Pierard, T. (2018, December). Around the backbeat: Exploring the influence of jazz drumming in popular music. Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music – Australia/New Zealand (IASPM-ANZ) Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Pierard, T. (Composer). (2018). Ashley Homestore theme [Radio and television]. National.
Pierard, T. (Composer). (2018). Moneylion Finance web short [Online]. International.
Pierard, T. (Composer). (2018). Screen Vista outro sting [Cinema]. National.
Research outputs 2017
Pierard, T. (2017, Autumn). Listen up! Head Hunters Herbie Hancock. The Drummer’s Journal, 50–53. Retrieved from https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53afcd8be4b0f6113496b34f/t/59f4ae9f24a694055a52b146/1509207859015/TDJ_16_FINAL.pdf
Pierard, T. (2017). Mimesis (1, 2 & 3). Riffs—Experimental Writing on Popular Music, 1(2). Retrieved from http://riffsjournal.org/issues/volume-1-issue-2-oct-2017/mimesis-1-2-3-tom-pierard-the-eastern-institute-of-technology-new-zealand/
Pierard, T. (2017, September). Igbo meets Electronica—Modernizing traditional African rhythms through individual interpretation and digital manipulation [Invited presentation]. In Transplanted Roots: Percussion Research. Symposium conducted at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Pierard, T. (2017, December). Influencing contemporary composition through historical precedence—Exploring the function of indigenous rhythm in the domain of modern popular music. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia and the New Zealand Musicological Society, Auckland, New Zealand.
Pierard, T. (2017). Exploring the application of transfigured audio and irregular rhythm in a compositional setting (Unpublished master’s thesis). University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Research outputs 2015
Pierard, T. (2015). Project Prima Volta ‘Shaping futures’ [Online promotion, music composition and arrangement]. Festival Opera.
Pierard, T. (2015). The singing lesson [Stage show, three original compositions]. In Hawkes Bay Arts Festival. Hastings, New Zealand: Creative Hastings.
Pierard, T. (2015). Bowie’s bebop barbecue [Live performance]. In Gemco Jazz on the Village Green [Concert series]. Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand: Havelock North Domain, January 31, 2015.
Pierard, T. (2015). Cricket World Cup drum theme [Live performance, internationally televised]. Napier, New Zealand: McLean Park, March 4, 8, 15, 2015.
Pierard, T. (2015). I put a spell on you! A tribute to Nina Simone [Live drumset performance]. In Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival. Havelock North, Hastings, New Zealand: The Famous Speigeltent, November 8, 2015.