Cited by the New York Times as a "virtuosic percussionist," Thomas Kolor specializes in 20th and 21st century music.  He holds a BM in music education from William Paterson College, and an MM from the Juilliard School.

Mr Kolor has appeared throughout the world as a member of the Talujon Percussion Quartet, the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, and Ensemble 21.  He is a frequent guest of the Group for Contemporary Music, Speculum Musicae, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Continuum, Newband, tje New Millennium Ensemble, and the ST-X (Xenakis) Ensemble, and was a regular performer on Columbia University's "New Music for a New Century" series.

As a soloist, Mr Kolor has given dozens of premieres, including the European premiere of Milton Babbitt's Beaten Paths for solo marimba, and has been presented in such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York's Museum of Modern Art, Holland's State Museum at Amsterdam, Princeton University, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr Kolor has recorded Milton Babbitt's Beaten Paths for Koch International Classics, and has also recorded for Mode, New World, Naxos, CRI, and RCA Classics, as well as for French, Danish, and American national radio stations.