'Spirits of the Night – Shades of Grief' is a quirky, wistful journey through different colours, textures and tonalities. It is intended to be an imaginative, emotionally intense piece which aims to draw the listener into a fantasy world which exhibits light and shade: an emotive balance of anguish and hope.

This piece was commissioned by and written in 2009 for harpist Eleanor Turner, who gave its World Premiere on 30th January 2010 at the Sala Incontri, Chiusa Pesio in Italy, and the UK Premiere on 19th July 2010 at Oundle Festival. Eleanor has edited the score with considerable input by Charlotte Seale, to whom she is very grateful. Thanks also to Ann Griffiths for preparing the final version for publication.

Thomas Hewitt Jones

Classically trained and brilliantly gifted, Thomas Hewitt Jones is equally at home in his roles as cellist, conductor and organist as well as composer.

Senior Winner of the BBC Young Composer Competition in 2003, he went on to study music at Cambridge University, where he was organ scholar at Gonville and Caius College.

His range and versatility as a composer go from the innocence of a carol to the sophistication of Hollywood film music; from solo songs and instrumental music to a Christmas fanfare for symphony orchestra. He has written three highly acclaimed ballets on Welsh themes for Ballet Cymru, including ballets based on Richard Llewellyn's 'How green was my Valley', Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' and the magical folk-tale 'Lady of the Lake'.

As composer of the brilliant sound-track for the animated films for the 2012 Olympic mascots, Thomas Hewitt Jones’s music is being heard all over the world.