Thomas Dolby Tickets

Thomas Dolby came to prominence in the 1980s, releasing hit singles including ‘She Blinded Me with Science’ (1982) and ‘Hyperactive!’ (1984), before becoming an in-demand producer and session music, working the likes of Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Def Leppard, The Thompson Twins and Belinda Carlisle. Dolby also famously shared the stage with David Bowie at Live Aid and Roger Waters at The Wall in Berlin.

Amongst a plethora of achievements, Thomas Dolby has received four Grammy nominations, two each in 1984 and 1988, and was awarded the Roland Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2018.

In a career defined by both music and technology, in the 1990s Thomas Dolby founded Beatnik, the Silicon Valley software developer of the polyphonic ringtone engine that played back the Nokia tune. Its technology was embedded in more than three billion cell phones and devices made by Nokia, Microsoft (MSFT) and Motorola (MSI.)

From 2001 to 2012, Thomas Dolby served as TED's Music Director, programming music for the TED stage, assembling a wide variety of house bands and collaborations to play between speakers.

Since 2014, Thomas Dolby has been on the faculty at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he leads Peabody’s Music for New Media program, which enrolled its first students in 2018.