Recent songs and films

Trailer for Tales of Apollo and Hercules, Tom’s acclaimed show for London Handel Festival 2025

A moving film by partners Deep Seat about the making of Our Street, the first show from MTFA’s flagship Urban Opera programme, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in Catford in 2024

Beautifully illustrated and animated by Chris Glynn in 2023, this is Schubert’s ‘Der Neugierige’. Part of Music and Theatre For All’s Schubert 200 project. Find out more here.

A live take of Das Wandern taken from the Die schöne Müllerin sessions. Album with Barokksolistene released on Rubicon Classics in November 2023.

Chosen as one of Gramophone magazine’s videos of the day in May 2023, this is a first taster from the complete recording of Tom’s arrangement for Barokksolistene of Schubert’s magical Die schöne Müllerin.
Lewisham Creative Chorus in action at the World Heart Beat Academy and Fellowship Inn, performing their own song cycle ‘Stories We Tell Ourselves alongside Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin in April 2023

A film Tom directed of Francesca Caccini’s extraordinary La liberazione di Ruggiero, in the style of George Melies, for the Brighton Early Music Festival, summer 2022

My production of Handel’s Messiah in Bath with Paragon Singers and Echo, conducted by Sarah Latto, from March 2022

An trailer for Tom’s film of Bach’s St John Passion with Oxford Bach Soloists, 2021

‘Von den Stricken’ from Tom’s film of the St John Passion, with Oxford Bach Soloists and Hugh Cutting as the alto soloist, 2021

An arrangement of Pete Seeger’s Where Have All the Flowers Gone featuring the wonderful Gwyneth Herbert, Roderick Williams, Siobhan Stagg, Joelle Harvey, Robert Murray, Lauren Lodge Campbell, Jan Capinski, Caitlin Hulcup, Thomas Guthrie and over 100 participants, to raise money for Help Musicians, made in 2020
A second lockdown song for large forces, this time in tribute to Dame Vera Lynn, to draw attention to the current and perilous state of the performing arts, and to raise funds for the Royal Variety Charity and Music and Theatre for All. Again featuring stars from the opera world, including the brilliant Roderick Williams, Louise Alder, Joelle Harvey, Kirstin Sharpin, Ben Hulett and many others, alongside amateurs of all ages and backgrounds, the film speaks to the power of communal musicmaking to foster a sense of belonging and togetherness even over distances and at times of hardship, made in 2020
Footage from Tom’s first puppet Winterreise, with audio from R3 In Tune with Sean Rafferty, taken from a performance in the beautiful Theatre Royal, Margate, in 2004