Tom Glöckner was born in Mannheim in 1965. He studied violin at the Mozarteum university in Salzburg with Jürgen Geise and participated in masterclasses with Denes Zsigmondy, Lynn Blakeslee, Nikolaus Harnoncourt the Hagen Quartet. After having been a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie for many years, he co-founded Ensemble Resonanz.