About

Hi, I’m Tom, and I’m an orchestral composer and arranger who specialised in post production sound and music during my filmmaking degree in Bristol. I now work professionally in these two areas - collaborating with orchestras across the country to create chart arrangements for concerts, as well as writing original compositions and producing sound design/mixing for short films and documentaries.

I’ve always admired how soundtracks elevate the drama and emotion on screen, and love film scores certainly much more than any other kind of music (except arguably the greatest band of all time - Queen). I started learning how to write for film initially by studying the scores of Williams, Zimmer and Shore, before also delving into the works of Powell, Doyle, Desplat, Giacchino, Elfman, Horner, Balfe, Arnold and many more. Film and TV scores now constitute the majority of my listening taste - a fact that Spotify helpfully reminds me of every year when revealing exactly how many hundreds of hours have been spent unashamedly blaring Murray Gold.

As well as composing, I enjoy experimenting with arranging songs in new and exciting ways. I have been lucky enough to have had charts sung by Alison Jiear, Emma Kershaw, Matt Ford, Sumudu Jayatilaka, Katie Birtill, Oliver Tompsett and Anna-Jane Casey, and performed on several occasions by both the Hallé and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as also sending arrangements to the RTÉ Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra for Friday Night Is Music Night. I’ve also been very fortunate to experience the highly surreal feeling of hearing my Tom Cruise Medley premiered in the Royal Albert Hall - certainly a far cry from listening to the first draft on a laptop.