SoundCloud. Chicago citation style: Rob Reiner, Marc Shaiman, Artie Kane, and Hummie Mann Mark Mckenzie. If you can get a person that’s really got good hand-eye co-ordination and a person that really knows how to repair their instruments you’re going to make a lot of money. After about 10 years of performing the standard orchestral repertoire of beloved greats such as Beethoven and Brahms as well as surfing in his offtime, Tom relocated to Los Angeles in 1984, where he soon landed the job as the principal oboe soloist on the blockbuster Tom's many musical credits in Hollywood include the films Today, Tom serves as the Professor of Oboe at Azusa Pacific Universitym wher he teaches and coaches many young and up and coming musicians throughout the United States. Tom Boyd (born on) worked on Quantum Leap as an oboe soloist in various segments in a total of 63 episodes of the series, beginning with the series pilot episode. The first concert I did was a piece called TB: Yeah, so the reason I’m saying this is so I spend ten years in the Honolulu Symphony, come here in LA, to answer your question, the first call I get is “will you please play So I turned the call down and then I said to myself about 15-20 minutes later, I thought I was just being called to play First Oboe, I didn’t know that they were actually calling me to play this, again, this English Horn part that I actually played with Aaron Copland ten years earlier.

I was lucky enough to start out with James Newton Howard, I was lucky enough to start out with Alan Silvestri [pictured, left], when they did their first movie (one of their first movies) so I had a pretty good idea, I mean, I had a pretty good barometer for who was gonna make it and as I got older I could see some of the young guard, like in their twenties and early thirties, and I said “this one’s gonna stand out, this one’s gonna make it big, this one probably will have a harder time” and then again we have to look at today, it’s the 21st Century, as opposed when I was working so hard in the 20th Century, is that today it’s not always about just the quality, it’s the package: how you market it.Like for instance, as you know, Hans Zimmer and I have been very good friends and Hans is a perfect example of somebody that can sell just about anything and I think his compositional chops are very, very admirable for one reason and that is that he’s so adaptable to the times.

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How lucky a guy could I be? I’d thrive on it and the audiences seemed to love it and so my goal was then how can I put this frickin’ oboe on the map?! It’s as simple as that.TB: As a matter of fact I have one woman, who will remain nameless, but a friend of mine and I got together and we said, “hey, look if you can make us reeds to a point, because the two of us play pretty similarly, we’ll give you a certain amount of money if you can make these reeds to a certain point.” It turned out the word got out and within about, I’d say, a year from that day where we hired this person to make reeds for us to a point, to almost the very end, where it only took maybe ten minutes to finish it up, that person was making over $100,000 a year making oboe reeds for people throughout the world and today that person has to turn people away.TB: Well, it’s funny, there’s room for two big jobs in the oboe world and that’s repair (oboe repair) and reed making. I was going to franchise it so actually I could license out the books and so I did that but then it got to be [where] I couldn’t do it myself, on top of my studio scene, on top of the fact that I started really enjoying doing coaching so I was doing a lot more of that and I also started, Phil, realizing that, my gosh, I really enjoyed performing and once in a blue moon I would be performing solo with orchestras and I actually loved it. That just annoyed me – it made me that much more determined to practise that much harder to win the audition. So I won the job. The official youtube channel of "The Hollywood Soloist" Tom Boyd. It takes… I mean, you don’t have a life! Is that still going?TB: I put it on the backburner. I was going to say, with about 1400 scores, you must have done one a week for 30 years and that’s just tremendous.TB: To add to that, I was averaging somewhere between 40 and 50 a year plus I would do in between – this is another thing that blew me away – I still can’t believe I did this but we would have morning sessions starting around, I’d go to work starting around seven thirty / eight o’clock, start my sessions at ten and go till one and then I’d have an hour off for lunch. I started seeing more sound design and that kind of writing and then I saw it actually getting to the point where – and of course – the directors and producers started getting smart and why would they want to hire Tom Boyd when they could take it to China or, we both know, any of the far Eastern European countries and do it in Bratislava or wherever they could do it? A graduate of Julliard School of Music, Tom won the Principal Oboe position in The Honolulu Symphony at the age of 21. The Wolfman (2010) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Tom Boyd, is one of the most heard oboists today. I hadn’t done the repertoire anyway. Boyd would become a professor of music at the University of Hawaii by 1974. View Tom Boyd’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. If we have three double sessions in one week as opposed to, where I was working, seven days a week, triple sessions, that’s a very good week.PT: Right, wow, it really has changed. I also knew that melodic writing was not as prevalent as it was when I was doing it. He has been a featured oboist in over 1,400 motion picture soundtracks including Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Beauty and the Beast, Castaway, Schindler’s List, Titanic and The Lion King.