Education University of Cambridge | Genre Classical | |
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Albums Rainbow To The Games: Music From The London 2012 Olympics Mascots Animated Films Record labels Universal Music, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Vivum Records Similar Voces8, Gavin Sutherland, Elmar Oliveira, Glenn Dicterow, Choir of Clare College Profiles | ||
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Thomas Hewitt Jones (born 1984) is an English composer of contemporary classical music.
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Thomas Hewitt Jones was born in 1984 in Dulwich, South London, into a musical family; his parents were 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. 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.
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 instrunent(s) and piano, which he made available for download from the Classic FM website.
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Fantasy on David Cameron2016
Cameron’s Lament2016
Lead Me - O LordThomas Hewitt Jones: Lady of the Lake - Sonata Cimarella - Spirits of the Night - Shades of Grief - Drop - Drop Slow Tears and other choral music · 2011