Tom Axworthy

Mr. Axworthy taught the Collegium Musicum and Recorder Workshop for Rio Hondo College and directed the Collegium for the Claremont Graduate School. He taught regularly for the early music workshops presented by the San Diego Early Music Society, the Southern California Recorder Society, the San Francisco Early Music Society and the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (ISOMATA). He directed his own annual SCEMC Workshop in Renaissance Reed Instruments and co-directed the Canto Antiguo Workshop in Early Music and Dance.
Mr. Axworthy was the founder-director of the Southern California Early Music Consort and a member of the Renaissance Players, Harmonia Baroque and was a co-founder of Canto Antiguo. He also directed several other chamber ensembles in a wide range of musical styles. Mr. Axworthy has appeared as a recorder/shawm soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as well as an oboe soloist with many local orchestras. He recorded for the Musical Heritage Society, Nonesuch, Dargason and Word Records. His early instruments and the SCEMC have been heard in numerous film and TV soundtracks.
Mr. Axworthy co-founded the Los Angeles Recorder Orchestra with Lia Levin in 2004, and directed LARO until his death in 2024. He also prepared many of the editions of renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic and modern music for LARO.