Thomas Hewitt Jones
Thomas Hewitt Jones 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.
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 and piano, which he made available for download from the Classic FM website.
On 26 July 2017, his Worcester Service was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from Worcester Cathedral.
Thomas's commercial track Funny Song went viral on the Tiktok platform in 2022. 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. The track is composed & performed by Thomas, and published by Cavendish Music.
Early life
Thomas Hewitt Jones was born in 1984 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. 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.
Composer
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.His Christmas carol Lullay, my Liking was recorded by British choir ORA Singers in 2017.
Key works
- 2006 - The Facebook song
- 2008 - The Forbidden Kingdom soundtrack
- 2008 - Under Milk Wood
- 2008 - What Child is This?
- 2009 - How Green was my Valley
- 2009 - Child of the Stable’s Secret Birth
- 2009 - Romance for viola and piano
- 2010 - Lady of the Lake
- 2012 - London 2012 / LOCOG Mascot Animated Films
- 2013 - Incarnation: A Suite of Songs for Christmas
- 2014 - Wildflower Meadows
- 2015 - Panathenaia
- 2016 - Christmas Party
- 2017 - Worcester Service
- 2017 - Lullay, my Liking for ORA Singers, conducted by Suzi Digby
- 2018 - Electro Cello
- 2019 - Neoclassical
- 2021 - Cinematic Advertising
- 2022 - ''In Our Service''
Music producer