Bio
(click here for CV)Tim was born in Blackheath, London in 1934. During the war, his family moved to Cornwall and he attended a school which his mother Gwendoline Hunt ran with the feminist author and campaigner Dora Russell. He was later educated at Frensham Heights and went on to study violin (Antonia Brosa) and composition (Herbert Howell) at the Royal College of Music.
Tim worked for many years as a violin teacher for schools in London and Oxfordshire and performed in semi-professional orchestras in Oxfordshire and Norfolk. Enduring themes in Tim’s work have been Classical Greek mythology, the Comedia dell'Arte, and the soundscape of the natural world, especially birdsong and the sounds of wind and water .
In 1996, Tim undertook an MA in electro-acoustic music at UEA under Dennis Smalley.
Performances of Tim’s work include Commedia Rusticana (Lontano Orchestra, SPNM, 1987), Jêté (Oral Cinema program, Purcell Room, London Southbank, 1990), Seas Incardine (University of Brimingham, 1990).
Tim lives with his wife in rural Norfolk. He contines to compose.