Biography
Thomas Hyde was born in London in 1978 and educated there and at Oxford where he read music. He studied composition privately with David Matthews while at school and later as a postgraduate with Simon Bainbridge at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Having gained the M.Mus degree with distinction, he was appointed the Academy’s Manson Junior Fellow in Composition for 2001/2. He attended Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Hoy Summer School in 1996, and worked with Sir Harrison Birtwistle at Dartington in 2000. He returned to Oxford in 2003 to study with Robert Saxton and was awarded a doctorate in composition. In October 2008 he was appointed Lecturer in Music at Worcester College, Oxford and in September 2009 took up a visiting lectureship in composition at City University, London.
Thomas Hyde’s work first came to wide attention when he was the youngest finalist in English National Opera’s young composer festival ‘New Visions, New Voices’ in 1992. Among the prizes and awards he has received are the National School Band Association Prize (1993) and a Wingate Scholarship (2004-5). His music is performed regularly in Britain, at festivals including Spitalfields, City of London, Presteigne, Deal and Little Missenden, as well as abroad and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. As well as his composing and teaching commitments, Thomas Hyde is a trustee of the Lucille Graham Trust, a member of the Little Missenden Festival committee and is also active as a writer on music.
Thomas Hyde’s work first came to wide attention when he was the youngest finalist in English National Opera’s young composer festival ‘New Visions, New Voices’ in 1992. Among the prizes and awards he has received are the National School Band Association Prize (1993) and a Wingate Scholarship (2004-5). His music is performed regularly in Britain, at festivals including Spitalfields, City of London, Presteigne, Deal and Little Missenden, as well as abroad and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. As well as his composing and teaching commitments, Thomas Hyde is a trustee of the Lucille Graham Trust, a member of the Little Missenden Festival committee and is also active as a writer on music.