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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name              = Trevor Jones
| image             = TrevorJones.jpg
| caption           = 
| image_size        = 150
| background        = non_performing_personnel
| birth_name        = Trevor Alfred Charles Jones
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1949|3|23|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Cape Town]], South Africa
| occupation        = Composer, [[conducting|conductor]]
| genre             = [[Film score]]
| years_active      = 1967–present
| website           = {{URL|www.trevorjonesfilmmusic.com}}
}}

'''Trevor Alfred Charles Jones''' (born 23 March 1949) is a South African composer of [[Film score|film]] and [[television score]]s, who has worked primarily in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trevor Jones {{!}} Biography, Albums, Streaming Links {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/trevor-jones-mn0000747028 |access-date=2018-04-26 |publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Trevor Jones {{!}} Soundtrack |url=http://www.runmovies.eu/trevor-jones/ |access-date=2018-04-26 |website=Runmovies.eu |language=en-US}}</ref>

He is best known for his scoring work during the 1980s and 1990s, where he worked on many acclaimed films including ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]], [[Runaway Train (film)|Runaway Train]], [[The Dark Crystal]], [[Labyrinth (1986 film)|Labyrinth]], [[Mississippi Burning]], [[The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' and ''[[In the Name of the Father]]''. Jones has collaborated with [[filmmaker]]s like [[John Boorman]], [[Andrei Konchalovsky]], [[Jim Henson]], [[Alan Parker]], [[Jim Sheridan]], [[Barbet Schroeder]] and [[Michael Mann]].<ref>{{Cite news |author=Eoghan Macguire |title='Last of the Mohicans' composer on soundtrack to his life |url=https://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/world/africa/trevor-jones-african-voices/index.html |access-date=2018-04-26 |publisher=CNN}}</ref>

Jones has been nominated for three [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Music|BAFTA Awards for Best Film Music]] - for ''Mississippi Burning'', ''The Last of the Mohicans'', and ''[[Brassed Off]]''. He has also been nominated for two [[Golden Globe Award]]s - [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]] and [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]], and a [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special]] for the miniseries [[Merlin (miniseries)|''Merlin'']].

Jones has been a Fellow of the [[Royal Academy of Music]] in Britain since 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Honours |url=https://www.ram.ac.uk/about-us/honours |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=Royal Academy of Music |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 1999, he became the first chair of the music department of the [[National Film and Television School]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trevor Jones turns 75 |url=https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/trevor-jones-celebrates-his-75th-birthday-120476a |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=Bizcommunity |language=en}}</ref>