Tom Rojo Poller is especially interested in the temporal aspect of music (including polyrhythmical/polymetrical music); music theater - or more generally, various forms of musical representation; the relation between music and language; the philosophy of music (especially music and the emotions, music and understanding).

Following an explicitly experimental approach, his music is at the same time deeply rooted in the western musical tradition and particularly influenced by its lesser known aspects (e.g. medieval and renaissance music, rhetorical aspects of baroque music) as well as various forms of contemporary musical practices.

His music has been performed at major festivals and institutions (such as MaerzMusik, Staatsoper Berlin) and was awarded numerous scholarships (among them residencies at the German Academy Rome, and the Cité des Arts Paris) and prizes (e. g. GASAG-Arts-Prize).