Thomas Davies served as the choral conductor of the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival from 1996 to 2007. Currently he is music director and conductor of the 110 voice San Luis Obispo Master Chorale. He was a faculty member at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, from 1983 to 2017 where he was a recipient of the university’s Distinguished Teacher Award for 2010-11. He and David Arrivée, conductor of the Cal Poly Symphony, were co-founders of Cal Poly’s annual Bach Week held each January. He has been a guest conductor for Opera San Luis Obispo and the Cal Poly Theater Department.

Tom served as associate director and director for the Oregon Bach Festival Master Class in Choral/Orchestral Conducting from 2005 to 2011, as well as the director of the Taipei Bach Festival Master Class in Conducting in 2010 and 2012. He was a conductor with the Central Coast Children’s Choir program from 2008 through the spring of 2012 and was a member of the choral faculty at the Idyllwild Summer High School Choral Festival from 2004 to 2007. He is a former president of the American Choral Directors Association Western Division.

A resident of Pismo Beach with his wife, Susan, Tom was born in Toledo, Ohio, and received his Bachelor of Music Education from Bowling Green State University and his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California.