RIP Mark Thomas

 

British film composer and conductor Mark Thomas died in London on July 16, 2023, after a long illness. He was 67. Mark was born in Penelawdd, Wales in 1956 and had a long successful musical career. After studying music composition and orchestration at university, he played violin with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, then joined the Royal Ballet Orchestra as co-leader and was invited to join the original orchestra for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom Of The Opera” and then went on to work in the recording studio under the batons of Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, John Barry, Michael Kamen and John Williams. During this career, Mark has successfully scored over sixty feature films including “Dog Soldiers”, “Agent Cody Banks II”, the “Magic Roundabout Movie”, “Shadows in the Sun”, “Greyfriars Bobby” and the dark horror feature “Wilderness, Flicka 3” and “Marley And Me 2”. More recent scoring assignments include the feature films “Zoo”, “Last Summer” and the hilarious counterculture romp “La Cha Cha”. Thomas scored two Euro-westerns: 2001’s “The Meeksville Ghost” and 2002’s “Hooded Angels”.