Tim
Murray studied at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music.
As Music Director of contemporary opera specialists Tête à Tête, he has given the premieres of over twenty operas, including The Cumnor Affair, Blind Date, Push! and Odysseus Unwound. He has a strong relationship with the Royal Opera
House, where he has conducted The Enchanted Pig (Opera Group co-production), The Gentle Giant, Pinocchio and The Wind in the Willows, as well as working closely with Mark-Anthony Turnage on the development of his opera Anna Nicole. Other operatic work has included La Bohème (Co-Opera Company), The Silent Twins (Almeida Opera), The
(Little) Magic Flute (English Touring Opera) and Tobias and the Angel
(ETO / Young Vic). He conducts regularly for Rambert Dance Company.
Tim made his BBC Proms debut aged 21 with
the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in the European premiere of
Nancarrow's Study for Orchestra. He has also performed with National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Psappha, and with the Manson Ensemble of the Royal Academy of Music at the Aldeburgh Festival. Tim conducted part of Le Marteau sans Maitre for Boulez during his 75th
birthday visit to the RCM. He has worked frequently with BBC Singers as
conductor and chorus master, including a series of concerts in the new BBC Radio Theatre, and Beethoven’s Fidelio (West-East Divan Orchestra / Barenboim, BBC Proms).
2008 saw Tim make his debut with the
Philharmonia Orchestra, in a UK tour of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.
Projects in 2009
included The Soldier's Tale in Japan (Royal Opera House production), and assisting on Martinu’s Mirandolina at the Garsington Festival. He will return to Garsington in 2010 to assist Steuart Bedford on A Midsummer Night's Dream. This year also sees his debut with the BBC Concert Orchestra in a broadcast concert, including works by Ligeti and Stravinsky, and a commission from Tom Arthurs, as well as his debut at Opera Holland Park, conductingFantastic Mr Fox by Tobias Picker.
