Thomas Shorthouse is a London-based composer and producer from West Yorkshire whose music has been heard across the UK, Europe, and North America. In his music, Thomas balances process-based harmony, digital sampling aesthetics, and influences from non-classical genres, often moving between the hyperreal and surreal, the feverish and sombre, and the playful and obscure.

Thomas’ collaborators include Luca Imperiale, Ozgur Kaya, İlayda Deniz Oğuz, Larli Davies, Amiel Ang, Felix Collins, the Jasmine Quartet, the Deleuze New Music Collective, Follia 4, serpentine.iii, the Fidelio Trio, Ex Corde, RCM Symphony Orchestra, Horsham Symphony Orchestra, Colin Alexander, and Héloïse Werner.

Recent projects include charms, trinkets, and offerings, a string quartet commissioned by the Jasmine Quartet, solarpunk is just another mercy for the hopeful few written for Colin Alexander and Héloïse Werner, and his lute concerto Sunroving written for Felix Collins.

In 2026, Thomas recieved the Elgar Memorial Prize from the Royal College of Music in recognisition of his achievments in composition. In 2024, Thomas was shortlisted for the National Centre for Early Music's Young Composer Award for his piece Mirabile mysterium, which was then workshopped and premiered by vocal ensemble Ex Corde. In 2022, Thomas was shortlisted for the Commonwealth International Composition Award, where a new work was then premiered at The Royal Overseas League, London.

Outside of the concert hall, Thomas is a keen collaborator across genres and disciplines. Since 2024 he has been the lead producer on SOLANI's three-EP run from LOOK AT HER NOW to PATHOGEN.

In November 2024, he worked with the RCM electronica society and visual artists Charles Ryan Becker and Julia Mazur to create a large-scale multimedia work. He also worked with artist Niko Raic, creating Lipiec: SEQUENCE 09812 for the release of his audiovidual calendar Chromatic Code which was distributed by the City Museum Czestochowa.

In addition to his music-making practices, Thomas also enjoys concert curation which has resulted in a series of concerts hosted alongside Molly Frances Arnuk. This series has included a programme exploring internet culture at the RCM Museum in November 2025, a concert highlighting their collaboratively composed string music at St Mary Aldermary in January 2026, a concert reflecting the concept of a sample library onto music old and new at Avalon Cafe in June 2026, and an upcoming concert at the Muddy Puddle pairing composers and writers together to collaboratively respond to the text of Byrd's vocal music.

In 2026, Thomas graduated from his undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music as an Ian Evans Lombe scholar. During his studies he has had support from professors and teachers including Deirdre Gribbin, Simon Holt, Nicholas Moroz, Kate Simko, Catherine Kontz, Ed Bell, and many teachers from Wakefield Music Services. He has also recieved additional guidance from David Horne, Colin Matthews, George Lewis, Donnacha Dennehy, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Mark Applebaum, Cassandra Miller, and Tonia Ko. He looks forward to beginning his postgraduate degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in autumn of 2026.