Tom Ward is a musician, composer and computer programmer based in south-east London. His primary instrument remains the saxophone, but is these days equally likely to be heard exploring bass clarinet and flute.

Tom has a number of regular improvising duos and trios, involving such artists as Adam Fairhall, Cath Roberts, Iris Colomb, Douglas Benford, Matthew Grigg, Nuno Trocado, Sergio Tavares, and more. He co-runs the regular BRÅK night - an improvised music gig in a south-east London homebrew shop, where he has played with such improvisers as John Edwards, Corey Mwamba, Charlotte Keeffe and many more. He has released albums of groups playing his own compositions (including Madwort Saxophone Quartet and Madwort’s Menagerie), as well as collaborating on collective ensembles including Cotovelo (PortaJazz), Spinningwork, and more. As a side-person, he has toured/performed with Dee Byrne’s Outlines, Beats & Pieces Big Band, Overground Collective, Favourite Animals, Porpoise Corpus and many more. In 2020, he was heavily involved in Noise Orchestra’s Autonomous Noise Unit (ANU) project, building an easy-to-use standalone JackTrip device for realtime online musical collaboration, as well as facilitating live internet broadcasts from multiple locations using JackTrip for London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) and Sloth Racket. When he’s not doing music he can be found working on OpenSAFELY, an NHS analytics platform.