Thomas Reiner has won prizes in the International Witold Lutoslawski Composers’ Competition and the International Boswil Composers’ Competition. He received the Australian Dorian Le Gallienne Award for Composition and the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award. He was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne for his dissertation on the semiotics of musical time.
He lectures in music theory and composition at Monash University, and is musical director of resound, contemporary music ensemble based at that institution. Together With Tim Flora, he has formed Tree, an electronic dance music duo. His writings include those on techno music, DJ culture, and raves for the Companion to Music and Dance in Australia.