Thomas Bandy is an Assistant Professor of Vocal Coaching at the University of Oklahoma School of Music. During the 2007-2008 school year, he was an Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, where he directed the vocal and instrumental accompanying programs. During the summer of 2008 he was pianist and coach at the Richard Miller Vocal Arts Symposium at Oberlin.

Thomas finished his doctoral studies in collaborative piano in 2007 at the University of Michigan with Martin Katz, with whom he also studied during work on his Master's degree. He has played in the voice studios of Shirley Verrett and George Shirley, among many others. Thomas is an active chamber musician and vocal coach in many languages as well, specializing in Russian and Czech diction and vocal literature, and has worked with many singers at Oberlin and Michigan in art song and opera, and he has worked as an opera coach at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. Thomas graduated summa cum laude from Furman University, in South Carolina, with a double major in piano and philosophy, and is married to Rebecca Bandy; they have two children.