Tom Horn
Tom has conducted Farnborough Concert Orchestra (formerly Pelly Concert Orchestra) since 2015. Each year he guides FCO through more than 60 pieces, and under his direction FCO is one of only a handful of amateur orchestras to have successfully played the soundtracks live to two animated film screenings - The Snowman in 2019, and Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong Trousers, in November 2024.
Tom developed his fascination with conducting while studying Music with Acoustics at Southampton University where he was Leader and Assistant Conductor of both the Symphony Orchestra and the Sinfonietta. While a student he set up his own Concerto Orchestra.
He has studied under Peter Stark, Richard Dickens, Peter Ash, Robin Browning and took part in a masterclass with Philip Ellis on Beethoven's 5th Symphony. He competed in the Cadaques International Conducting Competition and studied with Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Denise Ham and Toby Purser on the George Hurst Conductors' Course at the Sherborne Summer Music School.
Forging a career in amateur and youth music, Tom is the regular conductor of five orchestras and guest conductor of many across the Home Counties. Since 2008, Tom has worked for Buckinghamshire music service and is currently music director of Buckingham County Youth Orchestra and Aylesbury and Slough Youth orchestras.
Tom founded Marlow Orchestra in 2014. He is leader and assistant conductor of Haslemere Music Society's symphony orchestra, with whom his prowess as a violoinist was demonstrated last season, as soloist in Ralph Vaughan Wiliams's Lark Ascending.
In 2006 he founded the Charity Symphony Orchestra which continues to raise money for various charities, including a Beethov-athon (symphonies 1-9) for Comic Relief and a second instalment to the Haydn-athon (all 104!!).