Thomas Hyde is a composer based in London. His largest work to date is That Man Stephen Ward, the one-man opera premiered to great acclaim in 2008 and revived by Nova Music Opera at the Cheltenham Festival in 2015. A commercial recording featuring Damian Thantrey in the title role, was issued by Resonus Classics in 2017. Other notable works have included a string quartet (2009-10), a violin sonata for Jennifer Pike (2012) and a setting of the Magnificat for The Sixteen (2017). Recent compositions have included two orchestral works, a Symphony premiered by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow in March 2018 (released commercially in 2022), and a comedy overture inspired by Les Dawson for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Dalia Stasevska, premiered at the Lichfield Festival.
Hyde studied at Oxford University and the Academy. He was the Academy’s Manson Junior Fellow (2001-02) and made Associate (ARAM) in 2017. In June 2019 he was elected to a Senior Research Fellowship at Worcester College Oxford, and also teaches at King’s College, London. He recently completed a full-length opera collaborating with novelist Alexander McCall Smith commissioned by Scottish Opera.