Tom Service

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tom Service
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Mar 8, 1976(1976-03-08)
Age	48
Birthplace	Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Pisces

Tom Service Biography

Tom Service is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on March 8, 1976 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. Tom Service (born 8 March 1976) is a British journalist, writer as well as a radio and television host who has written frequently on behalf of The Guardian since 1999 and present the Proms on BBC Radio 3 since 2001. He is a regular performer for The Proms for Radio 3 and has produced a variety of documentaries on the topic of classical music. Since the year 2018, he has been a Professor of Music in Gresham College.

In his book from 2012, Music as Alchemy: Journeys with the Great Conductors and Their Orchestras, he explored music through study of the conductors and conducted interviews each one preparing for a performance with their orchestra. In a four-star review published in The Daily Telegraph, Sameer Raham called the book “excellent” and an “enthralling study”. Suzy Klein of the New Statesman also found it to be “excellent”, while expressing regret that the conductors were unable to define “what makes an exceptional, alchemical conductor”. The Economist said that the interviews “not particularly rewarding” but stated that “the book’s strength is in its mix of stories and perspectives”.

In 2014 Service made the first of a series of documentaries with historian Amanda Vickery with Reef Television for the BBC, titled Messiah at the Foundling Hospital. The programme received mixed reviews with The Telegraph criticising the delivery of both presenters and its inaccuracies and The Arts Desk being very positive. A second film, La traviata: Love, Death and Divas followed in 2016. The third film, also in 2016 with Amanda Vickery, was the documentary Leningrad & the Orchestra that Defied Hitler for BBC Two about the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the performance of Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad Symphony) by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Between 2015 and 2018 he was married to violinist Alina Ibragimova whom he first met while interviewing her for The Guardian.

Since 2011, Service has hosted The Proms, broadcast on Radio 3, the home of BBC proms, broadcast from The Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall and also hosting specially-themed editions The Listening Service in 2017 exploring the musical connections between the featured composers as well as BBC Proms Guide. BBC Proms Guide.

Tom Service Net Worth

Tom Service is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tom Service 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

From 1999 onward, Service wrote about music of classical origin for The Guardian newspaper.

He was a part of BBC Radio 3 in 2001 as a presenter of Hear and Now, and since 2003, he has been presenting Music Matters. Since 2016, he has been hosting a weekly show at Radio 3, called The Listening Service The Listening Service, which attracted the comparisons of David Munrow’s program Pied Piper, which aired on the same station in the 1970s.

In 2013, Service collaborated with composer and conductor Thomas Adès to write the book Thomas Adès: Full of Noises. Conversations with Tom Service. Opera News described the book as “two hundred pages of brilliant talk” and said of Service that “there’s no doubting the intelligence he brings to the project”. Classical Music magazine described the conversations as “a great battle of wills and provokes an unapologetically complex book”.

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Who is Tom Service Dating?

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Tom Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Tom Service celebrates birthday on March 8 of every year.