Biography
2-time Film And TV Music Awards winner Tom Erba is one of the most listened-to composers in television today. His musical score and main title for 'Tom and Jerry Tales', one of the oldest brands in all of television, has aired in over 100 countries worldwide for nearly 20 years. It is estimated that this music had been enjoyed by over a billion children and parents.
In 2005, Warner Brothers produced 39 all-original shorts of Tom & Jerry. In his first-ever submission for a television series, Tom's orchestral demo caught the ear of veteran animation producer Tom Minton, who hired Tom as the newest composer at Warner Brothers Animation, beating out a large pool of veteran, incumbent composers, many of them 20 years his senior, for the coveted classic cartoon. Tom wrote the new orchestral theme song for Tom And Jerry, and delivered 30 minutes of classic animation orchestra with no dialogue each week through all 39 shorts, to an excellent reception from the animation community. An instant hit, Tom & Jerry Tales became the number one animated television show on Saturday morning both domestically and internationally.
Also a prolific songwriter, Tom has had many featured songs in television shows and feature films, including The Shield, Desperate Housewives, and CSI: Miami.
In 2007, Tom won 2 Film and TV Music Awards - one for Best Score In An Animated Television Series for Tom And Jerry Tales, beating out legendary composer Alf Clausen's score for The Simpsons. He also won Best Use Of Song In A Feature Film for his Driving Hip Hop Anthem, 'Bring It On", co-written and performed with multi-platinum recording artist Aloe Blacc for the feature film Undisputed II: Last Man Standing, beating out Grammy Winner Moby's "Mysterious Ways" In The Bourne Supremacy.
In 2014, Tom founded the Peacefire Foundation, collaborating and teaching workshops to musicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His continuing work with the Kinchasa Symphony, a self-taught orchestra in Kinchasa, has been documented in Impakter magazine and the musical documentary 'Peacefire'.
Tom resides between Los Angeles and Europe, where he composes symphonic and choral works, and continues to write and produce for picture and recording artists.
