Trevor Jones

Trevor Jones is one of those composers whose work you have felt even if you never learned his name. Born in Cape Town and trained at the University of York before building his career in the UK, he scored a remarkable run of films across the 1980s and 1990s, from The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth to Mississippi Burning, In the Name of the Father, and The Last of the Mohicans. That Mohicans theme alone, with its surging, headlong momentum, still gives me chills. To me he is a master of emotional amplification, a musician who can take a scene's feeling and multiply it many times over through sound.

Name (English)

Trevor Jones

Name (Japanese)

トレヴァー・ジョーンズ

Reading

とれゔぁー・じょーんず

Born

March 23, 1949 (age 77)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Ox

Origin

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Occupation

composer / film score composer / musician / bandleader

University

University of York

• Official sitehttps://www.trevorjonesfilmmusic.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Jones%20(composer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269244

Tags

• Western Cape
• composer
• film score composer
• musician

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.