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Tom Hughes, born 2004, is a composer and drummer.

In 2018, Tom was selected from hundreds of entrants as one of the winners in the Lower Junior category of the annual 麻豆社 Proms Inspire Competition. His winning piece, The Weevil鈥檔g, was performed by Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Stark, at the Proms Inspire Concert at the 麻豆社鈥檚 Radio Theatre on 22 August 2018.

鈥淩hythm is very important to me as a drummer. I鈥檓 interested in unusual time signatures, so set out to see what a piece in 11/8 would sound like, as I鈥檇 never heard one before. I worked out the basic rhythm sitting in the back of the car on the way into Oxford. From there, I added the melody, which was improvised before being written down, and then built up the rest of the instrumentation.鈥�