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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 viral 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]
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]
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]
He produced This is the Day (2012) for the English composer John Rutter and his choir the Cambridge Singers and Aurora Orchestra.[21]
Thomas scores production music from his own studio facility and lives in London with Annalisa, his wife, whom he married in 2020.[22]
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