Tim Murray
Guest conductor Comedy of Change Tour 2010
Tim studied at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music. He is Music Director of London-based opera company Tête à Tête, and has recently given the premières of operas by Philip Cashian, David Bruce and Julian Grant. He has a strong relationship with the Royal Opera House, where he has conducted Stephen McNeff's The Gentle Giant and two dance pieces, Pinocchio and The Wind in the Willows (Tuckett / Ward).
Other operatic work has included The Silent Twins (Almeida Opera), The (Little) Magic Flute (English Touring Opera) and Tobias and the Angel (ETO / Young Vic). Tim made his BBC Proms debut aged 21 with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in the European première of Nancarrow's Study for Orchestra. He has also performed with Psappha, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and at the Aldeburgh Festival.
He conducted part of Le Marteau sans Maître for Boulez during his 75th birthday visit to the RCM. He has worked frequently with BBC Singers as conductor and chorus master, including the recent Fidelio Prom and a series of concerts in the new BBC Radio Theatre.
2008 saw Tim make his debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra, in a UK tour of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and he conducted the Orchestra again in January 2010 as part of its Music of Today series.
As well as making his debut with Rambert Dance Company, projects for 2009 also included The Soldier's Tale in Japan with Will Tuckett, The Enchanted Pig at the Linbury Studio in the Royal Opera House, and assisting on Martinu's Mirandolina at the Garsington Festival, where he will assist on a new production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 2010.