Thomas Hewitt Jones

Key works (non-exhaustive list)

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2009

Musical: Title TBC (check back soon for more info) - IN PREPARATION

'How Green Was my Valley' (ballet score no. 3) - 70' - IN PREPARATION

Christmas Fanfare (symphony orchestra) - 6' - IN PREPARATION

An Alleynian Celebration (commissioned by Dulwich College) - (wind / brass band) - 7'

'Spirits of the Night' (harp solo, commissioned by Eleanor Turner) - 6'

'The Flycatcher' for cello and piano - commission for ABRSM 'Timepieces' volume - 2'

'Child of the Stable's Secret Birth' - for 'OUP Flexible Carols' volume - 3'

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2008

8 Welsh scenes (PRSF funded Ballet score no. 2) - 20'

Two Dylan Thomas Songs - 8' - written for members of the Royal Opera House

'The beauty of Silence' (Viola solo) - 8' - commissioned by Drew Balch

'Illusions' (flute / tbn / piano) - commissioned by Sounds Positive for their concert in the Warehouse, Waterloo, Sunday 13th April 2008 7.30pm

'Under Milk Wood' (ballet - chamber orchestra) - 70' - commissioned by Independent Ballet Wales for their UK tour 2008.

'Spem Fantasia' (Cello and Electronics) - 8' written for Peter Gregson, first performance Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, 25 April 2008 7.30pm

...and an assortment of smaller pieces including 3 carols

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2007

Distant Memory (Violin/Cello & Piano) - 4' written for Simon Hewitt Jones and in memory of my Gran, Anita Hewitt Jones, also a composer

The Lord's Prayer (SATB Choir / Cello solo) - 5' written for Peter Foggitt's new choir, the London Chamber Consort

Jam (organ solo) - 5' I wrote (and performed) this piece at the London Festival of Contemporary Church music, St Pancras on 12 May 2007

'Kaizen Studies' (strings / wind) - 7' Commissioned by a new music ensemble in Cambridge, first performed at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, 2007

'The Violin Player' (Violin solo) - 3'

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2006

In memoriam (SATB / orchestra) - 15'

Sonata in a late-romantic Style (Cello & Piano) - 12' there are two versions of this, the second one pushes the boundaries quite a lot more in terms of tonality.

Elegy (string orchestra) - 6'

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2005

'The Blue Cello Concerto' (Electric Cello / strings / piano) - 12' - commissioned by cellist Peter Gregson, first performed at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

'War' (symphony orchestra) - 3' - commissioned by Richard Stilgoe for one of his family concerts at the RFH. Performed by the Junior Academy orchestra under Peter Stark.

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2004

Fantasy (strings / wind) - 6' - first perf BBC proms chamber concert 2004

Is there something behind the icy stillness? (wind ens.) - 6'

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2003

Elegy (Piano and tape) - 6' perf. RCM composers concert / NYO composers concert

Fanfare (Brass ensemble) - 3'

Silent Moon (solo piano) - 4' this piece won the BBC young composer competition that year

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2002

Organ Concerto (String orchestra / Red. wind / Perc / Organ) - 13' this was my most major work to date and was premiered at St John's, Smith Square in 2002. I played the organ part (the organ there is very loud!)

Simulacrum (String Quartet) - 4' first performed at a chamber music concert at a barn in Shropshire but I can't remember where unfortunately!

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2001

'Intrada' for Organ - 4' first performed on the Royal Festival Hall organ and also broadcast several times on Radio 3

Chorale, Fantasy and Fugue (Piano quartet) - 8.5'

Psalm 150 (SATB / org) - 6'

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2000

'The Endurance' suite (Fl. Cl. Hn. Tpt. Timp. Strings. Pno) - 12' commissioned by Dulwich College as incidental music for an exhibition held there about explorer Ernest Shackleton and his expeditions to the Antarctic. The suite was recorded and made into an album (the ensemble was conducted by myself and included players from the Royal Opera House orchestra). The CDwas sold in aid of the school - and had two pressings.

Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue (Cello & Piano) - 6' first performed at the Purcell Room, London in a Dulwich College chamber music recital

Cantus and Fugue (Piano trio) - 7'

Transparencies (amplified string quartet) - 7' my first outing into the world of electronic music. Looking back it was quite primitive (all that was available at the time was a box of digital delays) but I'm going to rework it sometime using more complex electronics.

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1999

Sonatina (Horn and Piano) - 8'

Kyrie (SATB) - 4'

Trio no. 1 v.2 (piano trio, rewrite of 1997 trio) - 8' performed at the Cheltenham Festival in a concert of works by NYO Composers.

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1998

Celebration Suite (solo piano) - 9' commissioned by Dulwich College Prep School for the inaugural concert of their new concert piano

Fanfare for a Grand Occasion (School Orchestra) - 5'

Snowdonia (Small ens.) - 6'

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1997

Trio no. 1 (piano trio) - 5' the first outing of the trio (see 1999 version)

Romance (2 Cl, strings) - 6'

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Pre-1997

A lot of scribblings - mostly contrived nonsense

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