Thomas Hewitt Jones
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.[5] As of June 2025, it has 43 billion streams worldwide, has been used in 32 million YouTube Shorts, and is the second most played song on TikTok.[6] The track is composed & performed (voice & piano) by Thomas, and published by Cavendish Music. [5]
Early life
[edit | edit source]Thomas Hewitt Jones was born in 1984[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]
Composer
[edit | edit source]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.[10]
His Christmas carol Lullay, my Liking was recorded by British choir ORA Singers in 2017. [11]
Key works
[edit | edit source]- 2006 - The Facebook song (composed together with Peter Foggitt[12])[13]
- 2008 - The Forbidden Kingdom soundtrack (assistant to composer David Buckley)[14]
- 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)[9]
- 2013 - Incarnation: A Suite of Songs for Christmas
- 2014 - Wildflower Meadows (for Arts for Rutland)
- 2015 - Panathenaia (for the British Museum)[15]
- 2016 - Christmas Party (Christmas Violin Concerto)[16]
- 2017 - Worcester Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis)[17]
- 2017 - Lullay, my Liking for ORA Singers, conducted by Suzi Digby
- 2018 - Electro Cello [18]
- 2019 - Neoclassical [19]
- 2021 - Cinematic Advertising [20]
- 2022 - In Our Service[21]
Music producer
[edit | edit source]He produced This is the Day (2012) for the English composer John Rutter and his choir the Cambridge Singers and Aurora Orchestra.[22]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Thomas scores production music from his own studio facility and lives in London with Annalisa, his wife, whom he married in 2020.[23]
References
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