Trevor Jones (composer)

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Trevor Jones" composer – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Trevor Jones
Background information
Birth name	Trevor Alfred Charles Jones
Born	(1949-03-23) 23 March 1949 (age 75) Cape Town, South Africa
Genres	Film score
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor
Years active	1967–present
Website	www.trevorjonesfilmmusic.com

Trevor Alfred Charles Jones (born 23 March 1949) is a South African composer of film and television scores, who has worked primarily in the United Kingdom.^[1][2]

He is best known for his scoring work during the 1980s and 1990's, where he worked on many acclaimed films including Excalibur, Runaway Train, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans, and In the Name of the Father. Jones has collaborated with filmmakers like John Boorman, Andrei Konchalovsky, Jim Henson, Alan Parker, Jim Sheridan, Barbet Schroeder, and Michael Mann.^[3]

Jones has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards for Best Film Music - for Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans, and Brassed Off. He has also been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards - Best Original Score and Best Original Song, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special for the miniseries Merlin.

Jones has been a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in Britain since 2006.^[4] In 1999, he became the first Chair of the music department of the National Film and Television School.^[5]