Thomas Hewitt Jones is an award-winning composer, music producer and songwriter. Since winning the BBC Young Composer Competition in his teens, his music has been published by many of the major music publishers and is frequently heard in concert and on radio, TV and in the cinema. Thomas’s diverse catalogue includes small instrumental, orchestral, choral and ballet works, and his large number of choral titles includes seasonal carols. His music is regularly featured on Classic FM. Large-scale works include the
Christmas cantata Incarnation, released on Regent Records, and Panathenaia - a Symphony in Stone, which received a premiere in acclaimed violinist Hugo Ticciati’s O/Modernt festival in Stockholm, followed by a UK premiere in the British Museum; both works have libretti by writer Paul Williamson. He has written a musical version of ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ with lyrics and book by Matt Harvey, which enjoyed four productions having been launched at the Theatre Royal, Bath.
Thomas’s work in the commercial field has included work in America and scores for films in the UK, as well as music for the London 2012 Olympics Mascots animated films, with stories by Michael Morpurgo. He has written a catalogue of around a thousand commercial music tracks which can be heard on a variety of media worldwide. Thomas’s track ‘Funny Song’ (published by Cavendish Music) was recently number 3 in the world on Tiktok, having gone megaviral on the platform in 2022-4 as well as on YouTube. It has since been covered by Crazy Frog, the video of which has currently 49 Million streams, and the main track on Tiktok has had 13 billion streams to date. The statistic is that most people in the world have heard it!
On Christmas Eve 2023, Classic FM featured 'The Christmas Story', an orchestral retelling of the Nativity story with narration by Stephen Fry, and they are due to repeat it during Christmas 2024. 'The Night Before Christmas' for choir, flute, piano, bass & kit was commissioned and premiered in New York in December 2023, and was recorded in January 2024 by the BBC Singers, with Thomas producing.
Thomas's recent album ‘Regards from Rochester’ has just been released on the Vivum Music label, and he is currently writing the music for a forthcoming UK film. Thomas is also a cellist, pianist and organist, and is the proud owner of two pipe organs as well as his cutting-edge composing studio.
Thomas married his Italian wife Annalisa in 2020, and lives in South London.