The Artist

Although Tomas were in many original bands before the real ambition of becoming an artist began when he and Magnus Rosén formed the duo/band "At Your Service". The constellation lasted enough to record a demo, however Tomas kept the name and formed a 7 piece band around the music which resulted in a single, a video and some live gigs.

After breaking up the band Tomas continued writing and recording and in 1997 he took the artist name "Kiwi" (his nickname since childhood) and launched the website KiwiMusic.com.
He released three CD's as Kiwi "Dreamland Stories" (2001), "Fools Symphony" (2002) and a remastered and rearranged version of "Dreamland Stories" (2004)

When joining Zero Illusions (2006) he put Kiwi on hold until now (2013). Discovering that there are too many bands/artists claiming the name Kiwi he decided to simply change and use his name Tomas Reinerson

The Composer

The first composer gig happened as Tomas joined an amateur film company and was asked to do the soundtrack for an 8 mm short film called "Av Jord Är Du Kommen". After several re-cuts the short were entered in to numerous film festivals/competitions both global and locally were it did very well. Swedish Television was very interested in broadcasting it however the extreme color compression of the movie was at that time to difficult to handle.

After this Tomas got very interested in writing music for similar purposes and has been writing jingles for Radio and TV shows, background music for instruction videos, comercials and other event purposes.
Unfortunately very little of these are digital or allowed to the public however one example can be heard at soundcloud:

Soundtrack for the short movie "Tystnad och Kärlek"
The score was written to be in the background of the entire movie (as there were no dialogue), meaning that each time that the movie was recut the score had to be rewritten and re-recorded.
The movie premiered on Gothenburg filmfestival 1995 and the music got some really great mentions.

The Musician

Tomas started playing bass at age 13 at the same time as he joined various rock groups and a Big Jazz Band. At age 16 he started playing professionally with an entertainment orchestra (formed by members in the Big Band) playing in the Gothenburg region at private parties and restaurants.

Since then he's been playing in almost every genre from Jazz to modern pop/rock (and recently metal), touring with artists/acts, traditional dance bands, cover bands as well as doing numerous stand-ins

The Teacher

Tomas began teaching bass after doing PRYO (a two weeks practical work orientation) at Lennart Wallins Music School at age 15. Lennart - a jazz organ player who had been playing with some of the greatest artists - took Tomas under his wings and acted as a employer and mentor. Tomas began teaching beginners bass classes, however after starting music high school he also handled the more advanced classes as well as "theory of harmonics".
After awhile he also started to give private lessons for those who didn't want to be in group classes, one of those students was world known Magnus Rosén (Hammerfall).

At 19 after finishing High School Tomas worked for a year as music teacher at elementary school, however since touring was much more appealing he left the teaching career in favor for that.

After a few years of touring with different bands, Tomas was recruited to work in the Rock School Project in Gothenburg (in the same area as he worked as music teacher), teaching and mentoring groups where he met many now famous musicians

Today Tomas still gives private lessons for a limited number of students, eventually this site will contain an online music school.