Timothy
was born in Kingston upon Thames and was a Choral Scholar at HM Chapel
Royal, Hampton Court Palce. Educated at Hampton School where he studied
the organ with Julie Ainscough, we won the Parry-Wood Organ Scholarship
to Exeter College, Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours in Music.
During his time as Organ Scholar he directed the chapel choir on tour
to Florence, Salzburg and Vienna as well as on a recording of sacred
music by Vierne, Fauré and Saint-Saëns.
He studied as a repetiteur at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
(2004-5), where he was the Assistant Conductor for productions of Mignon and the British première of The Little Green Swallow (Jonathan Dove). He conducted a student company in the concert première
of The Crocodile, a one-act opera by fellow student Llywelyn
ap Myrddin. In addition to the Opera Course at the Guildhall, Timothy
also studied composition for film, television and radio. He wrote the
score for the award-winning short Le Cauchemar de l’homme blanc
et noir, and is currently scoring the independent feature The Tragedy
of Albert for Unreal City Productions.
As a trainee repetiteur at the National Opera Studio (2005-6), Timothy
was the grateful recipient of the Sir Henry Richardson Scholarship administered
by the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the Leonard Hancock Memorial Trust
Bursary. His studies at the National Opera Studio were also supported
by the Friends of Covent Garden. He went on to join the Jette Parker
Young Artists Programme in September 2006. In the 2006/7 season, he
was Assistant Conductor on Bird of Night and joined the Royal
Opera music staff for Carme , Orlando, Don Giovanni
and Così fan tutte.
Timothy was the founding Chorus Master of Oxford City Opera in their
first production, La Bohème, and Assistant Conductor
for Carmen at Riverside Opera, returning to work on Nabucco,
and to conduct performances of Eugene Onegin. He is the new
Music Director of Riverside Opera, and will be conducting a production
of Die Fledermaus in 2008, directed by Richard Gregson.
Future plans include conducting a production of The Crocodile at the Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborne Festival in August 2007, as
well as joining the Royal Opera music staff on A Midsummer Night's
Dream and Tosca next season.
