Tom Kelley is a New York saxophonist and woodwind player. His current Broadway subbing positions include MJ the Musical at the Neil Simon Theater and Ragtime at Lincoln Center Theater, with former subbing positions on Sunset Boulevard at the St. James Theatre, BOOP! The Musical at the Broadhurst Theatre, The Neil Diamond Musical: A Beautiful Noise at the Broadhurst Theatre, Water for Elephants at the Imperial Theater, as well as the Off-Broadway production of The Baker’s Wife at Classic Stage Company (AFM-SETA). He was the reed player on the National Broadway Tour of Beautiful: The Carol King Musical (AFM-SETA, 2021-2022).

Tom is also an alto and tenor sub in Arturo O'Farrill's Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, with residencies at Birdland Jazz Club among other venues. Tom was one of the 2024 Winners of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. He can be heard on lead alto/Reed 1 on both the 2020 and 2019 winners of the GRAMMY “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” category: The Omni-American Book Club by Brian Lynch, and American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom by John Daversa. Tom has additionally recorded on 15 other albums to date.

Other notable performances and programs include Jazz Festival Ljubljana (Slovenia) with the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, the final Brubeck Festival, the Duffy Jackson Quartet at Rudy’s Jazz Club in Nashville, Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead, Brian Lynch’s Spheres of Influence at Pinecrest Gardens in Miami, and the Banff Jazz Workshop in Alberta, Canada.

Tom graduated from Frost’s Studio Jazz Writing master’s program and from Frost’s Studio Music and Jazz bachelor’s program, where he studied mainly with Gary Lindsay and Gary Keller, respectively. Tom began his collegiate studies by completing a Brubeck Fellowship (Brubeck Institute, University of the Pacific), studying predominantly with Joe Gilman and Jeff Clayton. Other teachers during college include Martin Bejerano, Dale Underwood, Adam Kolker, and David Liebman.

Tom graduated from Canton High School (Connecticut) in 2012. His main teachers were John and Barbara Mills as well as Bruce Haynes.