Thomas Hewitt Jones

Thomas Hewitt Jones is an award-winning composer of both concert and commercial music. Winner of the 2003 BBC Young Composer Competition, he studied music at Cambridge University where he was also organ scholar of Gonville and Caius College.

His concert work has been heard on BBC Radio, Television and in many of the major concert halls in the UK, including the Royal Festival Hall, London’s South Bank centre and the Royal Albert Hall. He has worked with numerous acclaimed ensembles such as the Britten Sinfonia, Sounds Positive, Members of the Royal Opera House orchestra and the Carducci Quartet. He has had pieces published by Faber Music, ABRSM and Oxford University Press. Thomas has worked in Hollywood assisting on the film scores for the films ‘Forbidden Kingdom’ (the Kung Fu epic featuring Jackie Chan & Jet Li, dir. Rob Minkoff) and ‘Town Creek’ (dir. Joel Schumacher), and has written music for commercial radio and TV stations including BBC Radio 4 and ITV. In February 2010 he wrote cello parts and performed on the remix of Dot Allison / Pete Doherty's 'I wanna break your heart' for U.S. release.

He has written extensively for ballet, including the 2008 Welsh Independent Ballet commission ‘Under Milk Wood’, an adaptation of Llewellyn’s novel ‘How Green was my Valley’ in 2009, and is currently working on a 2010 production for Independent Ballet Wales, based on the Welsh folk tale 'Lady of the Lake'. Thomas has written incidental music for numerous theatre productions, and is currently writing a large-scale musical. Recent works include ‘A Hymn for Canterbury’ for the Canterbury Singers, and the cello piece ‘The Flycatcher’ for ‘More Time Pieces for Cello’ published by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
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For more information or public performance, please email music [at] thomashewittjones [dot] com or ring +44 (0)7702 168228.