From One Adventure to the Next

Composed & Conducted by Tom Little

Live recording session at Shames Family Scoring Stage, Berklee College of Music

SANTI (Short 2021) - directed by Harry Richards

Original Score by Tom Little

Final Scene & End Credits from

11-minute BFI-selected short film

Tom Little is a Film Composer & Orchestrator from London, England, who graduated from Berklee College of Music in May 2023, receiving a bachelor’s degree in Film and Media Scoring. Tom has spent the first few years of his career in London, working both as a writer for Lorne Balfe, and a freelance orchestrator for composers such as Daniel Pemberton, Son Lux, Martin Phipps, Isobel Waller-Bridge & more. Tom has composed music for various projects such as 'The Naked Gun' (Paramount), 'Man vs Baby' (Netflix), the new Doctor Who spin-off 'The War Between the Land and the Sea' (Disney), 'The Hack' (ITV), & more. Some of his more notable orchestration projects are 'Thunderbolts' (Disney Marvel) working with Hugh Brunt & the LCO, 'Black Mirror USS Callister: Into Infinity' (Netflix), Materialists (A24), 'The Bad Guys 2' (Dreamworks), 'The Crown' Season 6 (Netflix), 'Wicked Little Letters' (StudioCanal), 'Fly Me to the Moon' (Apple), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Live in Concert all with Andrew Skeet, & many other projects. Tom was selected by the Berklee Screen Scoring Department as the recipient of the 2022 Ramin Djawadi Award prior to his final semester, in which he composed and conducted full orchestral works bi-weekly, and recently composed music for Brandon Campbell (who Ramin has worked with previously on projects such as 'Game of Thrones') on an unreleased film called 'Cliffhanger'. He has worked on multiple short films, promotion videos, advertisements, and podcasts, including a British-made short called ‘SANTI’ directed by Harry Richards, which was selected as 1 of 50 films showcased at the BFI Future Film Festival programme last year.

Tom grew up playing the trumpet, violin, and singing classically, and has been composing orchestral music from around the age of 14. His love for film music started around the age of 10, when he re-visited many of his favourite childhood movies, such as ‘Monsters Inc.’, ‘The Incredibles’, and ‘Shrek’, and found a passion for the emotive purpose of the music. Ever since then, he has explored all genres of music, bringing them all together to be able to compose in many different styles, which are displayed in many of his works on this website. Recently he has focused his time on combining the traditional orchestral sound with more modern, electronic ideas in order to create unique projects with a strong identity.

He has a flare for orchestration, which comes from years of listening to numerous classical works, and film scores ranging all the way back to the 1930s. He is massively inspired by the likes of Bernard Herrmann, John Williams, Thomas Newman and Ludwig Göransson, and looks to, one day, fill their shoes with new and exciting ideas for the world of film & TV. More recently, Tom has more recently enjoyed a variety of more ecclectic sounding scores from composers like Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Michael Abels, Son Lux and Jed Kurzel to name a few.