Tom is a composer whose music is performed throughout the UK and in Europe. Performers with whom he has worked include Jane Chapman, Melanie Pappenheim, the Delta Saxophone Quartet, Notes Inégales, the Fidelio Trio, the Endymion Ensemble, the New Music Players, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic. His output is notable for its diversity of medium, technique and aesthetic; it includes music for both amateurs and professionals, draws influences from post-war modernism, through European post-miminalism to non-Western music, and embraces both 'fixed' and open notions of the musical work.