Tom Harrold is a Guinness World Record Breaking composer for film, television and media with a rare classical background. His work combines a strong sense of drama with the craft of a composer trained at the Royal Northern College of Music, commissioned by the BBC Proms, and performed internationally.
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Tom Harrold is a Scottish composer renowned for bold, dramatic and emotionally direct music for film, television, dance, media and the concert hall. A composer with a rare classical background, he brings the craft of large-scale orchestral writing into screen-focused work, creating scores with strong dramatic shape, distinctive musical identity and a deep sense of atmosphere. His music has been heard across projects connected with BBC, ITV, STV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and CBS, and his media work spans drama, horror, thriller, fantasy, action, orchestral scoring and contemporary hybrid music.
Tom’s recent work includes original music for My Sister, the Serial Killer for Ballet Black, a 40-minute ballet score. His screen and media credits include collaborations with Spitfire Audio, Westwood Audio, Sonixinema, Soundiron, Lightsong Music, Evolution Media Music and London Sync, and in 2025, his rescore of CueTube’s VESPER was named a top-10 finalist.
Classically trained at the Royal Northern College of Music, Tom has written for many of the UK’s leading orchestras and ensembles, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Psappha, EXAUDI, Aurora Orchestra, Foden’s Brass Band, Manchester Camerata and the Edinburgh Quartet. A winner of the BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer Award, his music has opened the Last Night of the Proms, broken a Guinness World Record, and been performed at major venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Barbican, King’s Place, Bridgewater Hall, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Sadler’s Wells, Hackney Empire and Birmingham Hippodrome.
Alongside his work as a composer, Tom has extensive experience as an orchestrator, arranger and educator. He has worked with almost every BBC orchestra in the UK, and brings a detailed understanding of live players, orchestral colour and dramatic pacing to his work for screen and stage.
From his studio near Manchester, UK, Tom creates original music for filmmakers, choreographers, artists and organisations looking for highly crafted scores with emotional weight, atmosphere and a clear musical identity.