Tim
Murray studied at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music. As Music Director of London-based opera company Tête à Tête, he has given the premieres of The Cumnor Affair, Blind Date, Push! and Odysseus Unwound. He has a strong relationship with the Royal Opera
House, where he has conducted The Gentle Giant, Pinocchio and The Wind in the Willows.
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).
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 Rambert Dance Company, Psappha,
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and at the Aldeburgh Festival.
He 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.
2008 saw Tim make his debut with the
Philharmonia Orchestra, in a UK tour of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.
He will conduct 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 in 2009
included conducting the Manson Ensemble of the Royal Academy of Music at
the Aldeburgh Festival, The Soldier's Tale in Japan, The Enchanted Pig with The Opera Group at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House and assisting on Martinu’s Mirandolina at the Garsington Festival.
