Tim graduated from the Royal
College of Music in 2000, where he was a major prize winner. He
also studied at Cambridge University and at the Tanglewood Music Centre.
Tim graduated from the Royal
College of Music in 2000, where he was a major prize winner. He
also studied at Cambridge University and at the Tanglewood Music Centre.
In the field of opera he has recently conducted The Gentle Giant for Royal Opera House on the Road, The (Little) Magic Flute for ETO, Tobias and the Angel for ETO/Young Vic, The Turn of the Screw for Pigott’s Music Camp and Down by the Greenwood Side for Clarion Music Theatre. Tim is music director of Tête à Tête and will conduct the premières of new operas by David Bruce and Julian Grant in 2006. He has also been assistant conductor for Broomhill Opera, Spier Festival (Cape Town), Opera Holland Park and UCL Opera.
A strong interest in contemporary music led to the foundation of the highly praised Clarion Ensemble. He has assisted Oliver Knussen (Britten-Pears Orchestra) and Thomas Adès (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group), making his BBC Proms debut aged 21 in the European première of Nancarrow's Study for Orchestra. Tim returned to the Proms in 2002 for the Julian Anderson Composer Portrait Concert. In 2000 he conducted part of Le Marteau sans Maître for Boulez during his 75th birthday visit to the RCM.
Since 2002 he has been principal conductor of the Salisbury Sinfonia. Tim has also performed with BBC Singers, Psappha, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Pigott's Music Camp, RCM New Perspectives Ensemble and and Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra.
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