Tom Chevis
Tom's parents met in the London Symphony Chorus, and Tom's Grandma conducted a male-voice choir that his Grandad was in. Unsurprisingly, choral music played a significant part of Tom's upbringing, the highlight of which was being a member of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain for 11 years, between 2003-2013. He also began composing from a young age, winning the Sibelius Student Composer of the Year award in 2008 for his piece Enclos'd in Cinders, a choral setting of part of Shakespeare's poem The Phoenix and the Turtle.
Tom studied Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, and it was while a member of Oxford Uni's CU - the OICCU - that he was challenged and encouraged by UCCF to begin thinking Christianly about music, rather than keeping his faith and music separate. He explored this further in Cambridge as a UCCF Relay Worker and then in London as a CU Staff Worker for the four music colleges, and then for eight years as UCCF Music Network co-ordinator from his narrowboat in Gloucestershire.
Music Network Resources
- A Biblical Basis for Music and the Performing Arts
- Money, mediocrity, and the myth of 'making it'
- What does it mean to glorify God in my music-making? Part 1: Defining glory
- What does it mean to glorify God in my music-making? Part 2: Glorifying God in practice
- Should I take this gig or not? Part 1: A helpful framework
- Should I take this gig or not? Part 2: Conscience issues
- Should I take this gig or not? Part 3: Wisdom, folly, sin and Sundays
- Set on becoming an orchestral musician?
- The tongue: the music student's most powerful instrument of all (Part 1)
- The tongue: the music student's most powerful instrument of all (Part 2)
- How to respond to musical ineptitude
- Being in the music world but not of the music world
- Music - worshipped and adored?
- Dangling a carrot at Christmas
- Using musical analogies to explain the gospel
- The Music of Heaven
- Musicking in Corona-Time: Reflections from CS Lewis
- The yonder of its vision
- Taking Christ out of Christmas: an exercise in humanism
- Recital season: pressure
- Living for Jesus on a summer tour
- Why I've desired choral music more than ever lately
- Art & Music - A Student's Guide
- Imagine
- Voicing Creation's Praise
- Theology, Music and Time
- Music Network introduction
- Though there are torturers
- Dripping with God - the inescapable subject of choral music
- Spotlight, S3 E5: the orchestral conductor
- Spotlight, S3 E4: the musical theatre star
- Spotlight, S3 E3: the jazz musician and pioneer missionary to artists
- Spotlight, S3 E2: the music college Head of Opera Studies
- Spotlight, S3 E1: the thankful freelancer
- Spotlight, S2 E6: the theologian and musicologist
- Spotlight, S2 E4: the academic and 'new music' lecturer
- Spotlight, S2 E3: missionary-minded orchestral musicians
- Spotlight, S2 E2: the new convert cast as Carmen
- Spotlight, S2 E1: playing to the glory of God
- Spotlight, S1 E5: the composer and musical director
- Spotlight, S1 E3: reaching people through music
- Spotlight, S1 E2: the Baroque soprano
- Spotlight, S1 E1: the musical missionary
- How to make the most of Forum
- What is the Music Network's theology of music in a nutshell?
- Can people be saved through music?
- How can I best reach out with the gospel to other musicians?
- Is God a musician?
- What instances of music are there in the Bible?
- 1 Samuel 16:23 - Music for pleasure and healing
- 1 Chronicles 25 - Music in temple worship
- Psalm 33:1-3 - The fitting musical praise of the Lord
- Zephaniah 3:17 - God the singer
- Mark 14:26 - The Son sings
- Colossians 3:16 - Singing to one another
- Revelation 5 - The Lamb worthy of all musical praise
- Symphony No.2 - Gustav Mahler
- Journeying with the Music Network: an interview
- Music and the Glory of God - Word Alive 2018