Thomas Graeff is a multi-instrumentalist originally from the Pacific Northwest. He holds a Music Performance degree from Western Washington University after studying jazz improvisation and arranging with Chuck Israels, and the tuba with Dr. Carla Rutschman. He has performed music in the majority of the United States and also enjoys working as a freelance audio engineer. 

Thomas has been teaching music professionally since 2011 in Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. In that time has helped thousands of students learn guitar, bass, ukulele, piano, drums, and brass instruments. Besides music, he maintains interests in basketball, chess, cooking, and computer programming.