Tom is a composer and academic. His recent commissioned works included a Symphony for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and a full-length opera, 'Aiding and Abetting' for Scottish Opera (2027/28 season). Tom previously taught at City University and held a junior fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music. He combines his current role at King's with a senior research fellowship at Worcester College, Oxford. He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and in 2023 was appointed a vice-President of the Presteigne Festival. For many years he was chair of the Lucille Graham Trust, a small charity supporting education music projects in the London area.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Composition
• Analysis
• Techniques of Composition

Teaching

Tom teaches composition and analysis at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Expertise and public engagement

Tom has appeared by BBC television and Radio 3. He regularly chairs public talks for the Presteigne and Little Missenden Festivals.

Selected publications

• Sacred Music by Thomas Hyde, Choir of King's College, London, Joseph Fort, Delphian, forthcoming 2027.
• ‘On Symphonying’, The Symphony in Britain and Ireland since 1900: A Critical History, ed. Nicholas Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2026.
• Stephen Dodgson: A Centenary Celebration, ed. Oliver Chandler & Thomas Hyde, de la Porte Publishing, 2024.
• Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Paterson, Resonus Classics, 2021.
• ‘Michael Tippett: The Biography; The Pre-History of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’, Twentieth-Century Music, Cambridge University Press, Vol 17(2), 2020.
• David Matthews: Essays, Tributes and Criticism, ed. Thomas Hyde, Plumbago Books, 2014.