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Tom Hughes, born 2004, is a composer and drummer. In 2018, Tom was selected from hundreds of entrants as one of the winners in the Lower Junior category of the annual �鶹�� Proms Inspire Competition. His winning piece, The Weevil’ng, was performed by Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Stark, at the Proms Inspire Concert at the �鶹��’s Radio Theatre on 22 August 2018. “Rhythm is very important to me as a drummer. I’m interested in unusual time signatures, so set out to see what a piece in 11/8 would sound like, as I’d never heard one before. I worked out the basic rhythm sitting in the back of the car on the way into Oxford. From there, I added the melody, which was improvised before being written down, and then built up the rest of the instrumentation.”