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Thomas Meadowcroft (b. 1972) is an Australian freelance composer and musician living in Berlin, where he has been based since 1998. His work involves notated compositions for acoustic instruments and electronics, electric organ in both experimental and pop-music contexts, sound installations, film and theatre music.

His compositions have been performed at various contemporary music festivals in Europe (Bludenz, Happy Days, Festival Presences, Wiener Festwochen etc.) and his music has been commissioned by Ensemble Mosaik, ELISION ensemble, KNM Berlin, ensemble recherche and Les Percussions de Strasbourg. His notated work is available through Plainsound Music Edition.
    
As an electric organ player, he has performed at Maerzmusik Berlin, the Holland Festival and the NowNow Festival. He performs regularly with Australian percussionist Steve Heather and keyboardist Boris Hauf (Vienna/London). He has also worked in collaboration with the Munich-based theatre company HUNGER UND SEIDE, the Canadian video artist Peter Sabat, German filmmaker Romeo Grunfelder, and New York cellist Alex Waterman.

The sound installation Monaro Eden was on display at the exhibition 'Australian Contemporary Art: Optimism' at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2008/9.

In 2005, Thomas Meadowcroft was in residence at the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, and at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (as guest of the Berlin Senate for Science, Culture and Research). He was in residence at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks House, Sydney in 2007/8.

Thomas Meadowcroft studied composition in the USA with George Crumb and Brian Ferneyhough.

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Biography provided by the composer — current to June 2009