14 Facts About Tom Service

Tom Service was born on 8 March 1976 and is a Scottish writer, music journalist, and television and radio presenter.

Tom Service has written regularly for The Guardian since 1999 and presented on BBC Radio 3 since 2001.

Tom Service is a regular presenter of the Proms for Radio 3 and has presented several documentaries on classical music.

Tom Service studied music at the University of York, then studied for a masters in music at the University of Southampton.

Tom Service wrote his PhD thesis on American composer and musician John Zorn.

Tom Service joined BBC Radio 3 in 2001 presenting Hear and Now, and from 2003 he has presented Music Matters.

From 2016, he started presenting a weekly show on Radio 3, called The Listening Tom Service, which drew comparisons to David Munrow's programme Pied Piper, which aired on the same station in the 1970s.

Since 2011 Tom Service has presented the Proms, broadcast on Radio 3, from the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall, as well as presenting special editions of The Listening Tom Service in 2017 exploring the musical pathways between featured composers and the BBC Proms Guide.

In 2014 Tom Service made the first of a series of documentaries with historian Amanda Vickery, produced by Reef Television for the BBC, titled Messiah at the Foundling Hospital.

In 2015 Tom Service wrote and presented The Joy of Mozart, a documentary for BBC Four, which The Daily Telegraph described as "joyous" and "richly enjoyable".

Since 1999 Tom Service has written about classical music for The Guardian newspaper.

In 2013, Tom Service collaborated with composer and conductor Thomas Ades to write the book Thomas Ades: Full of Noises.

Tom Service was Professor of Music from 2018 to 2019 at Gresham College and has taught at Trinity College Of Music.

In 2015 Tom Service married Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova, whom he first met while interviewing her for The Guardian.