Dream Town Music

Tom Croxon is the co-founder of Dream Town Music. He is a distinguished producer of concerts, tours, events and recordings and has been successful in building internationally acclaimed music brands, combining his musicality and creativity with an innate entrepreneurial flair.

Tom’s ability to forge impactful relationships within the artistic, business, and philanthropic realms has been evident throughout his career. He is a classically trained musician, a graduate of the Royal College of Music and was awarded numerous prestigious scholarships to support his postgraduate training at the Juilliard School in New York.

Tom was a professional double bass player and performed with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia and as a session musician recorded soundtracks for feature films and for recording artists. He went on to establish himself as a highly successful entrepreneur in the music industry, which is illustrated by his collaborations with eminent artists, composers, directors, producers, film studios, record labels and music brands.

Tom records at London’s iconic Abbey Road and Air Studios, and his work has been seen on television and at leading concert halls around the world such as London’s Royal Albert Hall. He excels at and has a wealth of experience in translating creative visions into commercial success. His expertise extends to curating and producing concerts and tours; project-managing and score-producing soundtrack recordings; and producing award-winning records. Tom’s legacy of musical excellence, philanthropy and entrepreneurial spirit paints a compelling picture.

In his late twenties, while working as a classical musician, Tom was diagnosed with and successfully treated for testicular cancer. Motivated by gratitude for the outstanding care he received at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London and a desire to raise funds and awareness about the disease, Tom partnered with a distinguished group of leaders from the worlds of business and finance to spearhead a fundraising campaign for male cancer research.

Tom’s creative, organisational and philanthropic skills rose to the fore when he founded the groundbreaking ‘Music for Everyman Gala Concerts’, producing three galas at London’s Royal Festival Hall starring Vladimir Ashkenazy and Christian Thielemann conducting the Philharmonia with soloists Peter Jablonski, Sarah Chang and Evgeny Kissin. They raised the largest sum of money ever achieved by classical gala concerts at the Southbank Centre and contributed substantial funding towards the construction of the pioneering Male Cancer Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research.

This experience had a powerful influence on Tom’s creative and professional development and was the catalyst and inspiration for him founding Tom Croxon Management which specialises in artist management and music production. Tom has enjoyed long-term collaborations with legendary jazz artists Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth, the celebrated American jazz singer Curtis Stigers, opera superstar Maria Ewing and piano virtuoso Artur Pizarro.

Tom produced Artur’s complete cycle of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas and the complete works of Ravel and Debussy, which were broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and earned Artur a Royal Philharmonic Society nomination for ‘Best Series’. Tom was pivotal in establishing the phenomenal success of the John Wilson Orchestra and was instrumental in the BBC programming the orchestra’s 2009 debut at the BBC Proms, which was broadcast live on national television and seen by millions.

This began a decade-long partnership with the BBC, producing the John Wilson Orchestra’s BBC Proms celebrating the golden age of Hollywood film and Broadway musicals including ‘A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals’, ‘Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies’, ‘My Fair Lady’, ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ and ‘Oklahoma’. He produced the orchestra’s national tours and productions at the Philharmonie Berlin and Royce Hall in Los Angeles. Tom is credited with signing the John Wilson Orchestra to an exclusive multi-album recording contract with Warner Classics and with producing the orchestra’s recordings. One of these, ‘Cole Porter in Hollywood’, received an Echo Klassik award and was televised for Sky Arts at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

In 2018 Tom established a new partnership with the outstanding British composer, arranger and orchestrator Andrew Cottee. They are co-founders of Dream Town Music which specialises in the creation and production of music for film, television, recording artists, advertising campaigns, theme park productions and concert hall shows.

Tom and Andrew have been invited by Disney to collaborate on multiple productions, most recently project-managing and co-producing the soundtrack recording of Andrew’s inspiring new arrangements for ‘Arendelle: The World of Frozen’, performed by the Dream Town Orchestra and opening at Hong Kong Disneyland in November 2023. Dream Town Music partnered with the leading French music supervisor Emmanuel Deletang to project-manage the soundtrack recording for Jeremy Zag’s 2023 feature animation ‘Miraculous- Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie’, performed by the Dream Town Orchestra. The Dream Town Orchestra also recorded David Mitcham’s original score for Netflix’s forthcoming wildlife feature film ‘The Secret Lives of Orangutans’, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

Andrew has arranged and conducted four studio albums with Seth MacFarlane including the latter’s 2023 Christmas CD with Elizabeth Gillies, ‘We Wish You the Merriest’, recorded with the Dream Town Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios. Dream Town Music’s own Christmas show, ‘Swingin’ Christmas’, has been broadcast on BBC Radio and performed at leading concert halls by the Dream Town Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.