Dr Thomas Hyde ARAM

Thomas Hyde is a composer and academic. He has taught at City University and held a junior fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music. He combines his role at Worcester College with a lectureship in music at King’s College, London. In 2017 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and in 2023 was appointed a vice-President of the Presteigne Festival. He is chair of the Lucille Graham Trust, a small charity supporting education music projects in the London area.

Dr Hyde teaches analysis, techniques of composition, original composition across all three years of the undergraduate music course. He also tutors on various optional history topics and dissertations relating to British musical modernism.

Thomas Hyde is a composer with a wide number of commissioned works produced over the last twenty years. Recent pieces have included a Symphony for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, choral music and two operas: That Man Stephen Ward (2008) and Aiding and Abetting (2019-22) for Scottish Opera. Dr Hyde also writes about music (see publications tab).

Recent selected publications:

Writings

• ‘Symphonying’, The Cambridge Companion to the British Symphony, ed. Nicholas Jones (forthcoming)
• Stephen Dodgson: A Centenary Celebration, ed. Oliver Chandler & Thomas Hyde, de la Porte Publishing (forthcoming)
• ‘Derek Bourgeois (1941-2017)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2021
• ‘Michael Tippett: The Biography; The Pre-History of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’, Twentieth-Century Music, Cambridge University Press, Vol 17(2), 2020
• ‘William Mathias: The Student, Real and Imagined’, British Music, Vol.39/40, 2018
• David Matthews: Essays, Tributes and Criticism, ed. Thomas Hyde, Plumbago Books, 2014

Recordings

• Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Paterson (Resonus, 2021)
• Sweet was the Song, ORA, Suzi Digby (Harmonia Mundi, 2018)
• That Man Stephen Ward, Damien Thantrey, Nova Music Opera, George Vass (Resonus, 2017)