1977 First Place Guitar Solo Award at McCormick Place, Chicago

1980 Piano scholarship award with Julliard piano professor

1985 Clarinet Performance Scholarship at DePaul University, Chicago

1987-1990 Sound Engineer and Session Guitarist at Universal Recording, Chicago

1991 Freelance Sound Engineer, Musician and Technician in Los Angeles

1992-1994 In-house Sound Engineer and Session Guitarist/Clarinetist/AFM member at Chicago jingle house for regional and nationwide custom music jingles on TV and radio

1995 Billboard Song Contest Special Award for music songwriting on his ballad “Any Day Now”

1999 Released album “Another Day in Cowtown” of original alternative rock songs

2010 Performed classical guitar live on Chicago’s WFMT radio

2011 Released album “Primero” receiving praises from Phoenix Classical Promotion in Canada for emotive performance, quality production and radio potential

2012 Released album “Love, Cynical”

2019 Released two albums of solo classical guitar, “Passionart” and “Drift”

2021 Tom’s arrangement and recording of “Chopin Waltz No. 10” was curated on Spotify, now at over 26,000 streams