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Thomas Hewitt Jones (born 24 October 1984) is a British composer and music producer, working predominantly in the fields of contemporary classical and commercial music.

Thomas scored the music for the London 2012 Olympics Mascots animated films.[1]

On 11 July 2016, outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron was recorded humming four notes of an unidentified tune, which created an internet furore; on the following day, Thomas Hewitt Jones released the sheet music for a Fantasy on David Cameron: arranged for high/low solo instrument(s) and piano, which he made available for download from the Classic FM website.[2][3]

On 26 July 2017, his Worcester Service (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from Worcester Cathedral.

Thomas's commercial track Funny Song [4] went megaviral on the Tiktok platform in 2022, with over 8 billion streams worldwide as of July 2022. The track is composed & performed (voice & piano) by Thomas, and published by Cavendish Music. [5]

Early life

Thomas Hewitt Jones was born in 1984[6] in Dulwich, South London, into a musical family; his parents are both musicians and his paternal grandparents were both composers.

Educated at Dulwich College, he went on to be the organ scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[7] He was the winner of the 2003 BBC Young Composer of the Year competition, and in 2009 received a BBC Music Magazine "Premiere Album" award for producing an album of the music of Imogen Holst.[8]

Composer

On 18 May 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown, The Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London and soprano Laura Wright released a new single 'Can You Hear Me?', composed by Thomas with words by long-time collaborator Matt Harvey to raise awareness of mental health, encouraging those in need to seek support.[9]

His Christmas carol Lullay, my Liking was recorded by British choir ORA Singers in 2017. [10]

Key Works

• 2006 - The Facebook song (composed together with Peter Foggitt[11])[12]
• 2008 - The Forbidden Kingdom soundtrack (assistant to composer David Buckley)[13]
• 2008 - Under Milk Wood (for Ballet Cymru)
• 2008 - What Child is This?
• 2009 - How Green was my Valley (for Ballet Cymru)
• 2009 - Child of the Stable’s Secret Birth
• 2009 - Romance for viola and piano
• 2010 - Lady of the Lake (for Ballet Cymru)
• 2012 - London 2012 / LOCOG Mascot Animated Films (soundtracks)[8]
• 2013 - Incarnation: A Suite of Songs for Christmas
• 2014 - Wildflower Meadows (for Arts for Rutland)
• 2015 - Panathenaia (for the British Museum)[14]
• 2016 - Christmas Party (Christmas Violin Concerto)[15]
• 2017 - Worcester Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis)[16]
• 2017 - Lullay, my Liking for ORA Singers, conducted by Suzi Digby
• 2018 - Electro Cello [17]
• 2019 - Neoclassical [18]
• 2021 - Cinematic Advertising [19]
• 2022 - In Our Service[20]

Music producer

He produced This is the Day (2012) for the English composer John Rutter and his choir the Cambridge Singers and Aurora Orchestra.[21]

Personal life

Thomas scores production music from his own studio facility and lives in London with Annalisa, his wife, whom he married in 2020.[22]

References

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