Tony is an accomplished pianist and keyboard player
from Mumbai, with an L.T.C.L degree from Trinity College Of Music,
London. Having delved successfully in classical music, Tony turned to pop music and later to Jazz, where once again he made a name
for
himself, playing for various bands namely 7th Galaxy, Braz Gonsalves
Sextet, Night Birds, Solid Gold with Pam Crain, Joe Alvares and
currently a fusion band called the Brown Indian Band. Tony originally
hails from beautiful, scenic Goa and has a number of konkani albums
to his credit such as Dinfa's - Golden Melodies Of Goa and Mannkam
Motiam, Jose Rod's - Tarvotti, H.Britton's - Suvoim, Jedi Music's -
Natalancho Dobazo and Christmas in Goa, Pauline Communications - Somi Jezu Krist, Povtir Atmea Ye Devon, Sorgimchea Bapa to name a few.
As member of the Cine Musician Association (CMA) he has
worked on various film background music. His large array of rhymes
with Jedi Music Co. can be found in almost every house all over
India. As Jedi Music Co's "Music Director" he has to his credit
various cassettes and CD's covering a wide spectrum of genres of
music like rhymes, kids songs, party songs, masalas, christmas songs
(English, Konkani, Hindi), devotionals etc.
Between 2002 and 2006 Tony was a Music Director at the Al Diyafah
High School - Dubai, where he directed the music and the choir for various musical
plays such as the "The Lion King", "Flying Without Wings", "Beauty
And The Beast". He also wrote the entire script, song lyrics as well
as composed the music for the junior school play "Glorious Nature" .
While in Dubai he played a number of jazz gigs with American and
British musicians.