Tommy Davis is driven by the desire to collaborate with multifaceted artists in co-composed or co-improvised projects and to share the results within his community and abroad. Integrating saxophone and technology, he explores interactions between performer physicality and electronic media while blurring boundaries between genres.

Tommy lives for chamber music and is a founding member of the Proteus Saxophone Quartet, the Duo d’Entre-Deux, Revolution Ensemble, and Ensemble AKA. He is an active improviser in the Montreal scene often performing at Mardi Spaghetti, Sala Rossa, Café Résonance, and La Sotterenea in solo and group settings. Equally at home interpreting classical music and transcriptions with the Proteus Quartet, he has performed across Canada with Prairie Debut, Müzewest Concerts, and Debut Atlantic.

A committed interpreter and commissioner of new music, he has performed for the Huddersfield New Music Festival, Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn), Cambridge University (UK), Sonorities Festival (Belfast), Music in New Technologies Forum (Halifax), Calgary New Music Festival, Strata New Music Festival (Saskatoon), Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec, No Hay Banda (Montreal), and the Suoni per il Popolo Festival (Montreal). Recent projects include collaborators such as Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Gordon Fitzell, Takuto Fukuda, Kevin Gironnay, Vincent Ho, Colin Labadie, Stephanie Orlando, Ofer Pelz, and Paul Suchan. 

Tommy is a dedicated educator and mentors young saxophonists in the arts-études program at the Joseph-François-Perrault high school in addition to running a private teaching studio. He has performed masterclasses and guest artist recitals at universities across Canada and the Midwest USA.

Alongside his artistic practice, Tommy works as Conferences & Special Events Coordinator at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) at McGill University, where he coordinates conferences, lectures, workshops, concerts, and public engagement initiatives that bring together researchers, artists, students, and industry partners.

Tommy completed a Doctor of Music degree at McGill University's Schulich School of Music as a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow under the tutelage of Marie-Chantal Leclair. His research investigated improvisation with musical agents and the development of an augmented instrument called the eTube through an interdisciplinary research-creation project supported by collaborators Vincent Cusson, Kasey Pocius, and Maxwell Gentili-Morin.