Greg Tuohey

Greg Tuohey was born in Auckland, New Zealand. 

He began playing music at the age of 5 as a classical pianistbut switched to guitar at 10 years old. 

By the age of 15, Tuohey was playing professionally in jazz clubs across Auckland, earning a name for himself as one of the preeminent jazz musicians to emerge from the country. In 1994 Tuohey was awarded a scholarship to study at Berklee School of Music where he studied for a year beforemoving to New York. 

Over the next five years, Tuohey performed and recorded with Mark Turner, Seamus Blake, Reid Anderson, Ari Hoenig, George Garzone and many others. He was a founding member of the collaborative jazz group Flipside with Matt Penman, Darren Beckett and Jerome Sabbagh. 

Flipside released their debutalbum on Naxos Records in 1998 and toured extensively throughout Europe, the UK, Northern Ireland and New Zealand. In 2000, Tuohey became disillusioned with jazz and improvised music. He picked his last gig and then didn't play anote of jazz for over a decade. Instead, Tuohey worked strictly in rock music as a session guitarist as well asplaying and touring with various rock bands. Notably with critically acclaimed indie-folk singer Joe Pug. 

In 2010,Tuohey began playing improvised music again, an effort culminated in the release of First (2013). First was Tuohey's first jazz record as a leader, and featured rising young Chicago musicians Dan Pierson, Mike Harmonand Matt Carroll. In 2013 Tuohey returned to the New York music scene, where he maintains a rigorous touring and recordingschedule with Joe Pug and other rock acts as well as playing improvised music with Aaron Parks, Orlando LeFleming, Jerome Sabbagh and many others.

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