Born in Leicester, Tim received his formative musical education as a chorister at the Church of St James the Greater and as a choral scholar in Leicestershire Chorale. After completing the sixth form, Tim was a Choral Scholar at Norwich Cathedral, where he studied with tenor, Ben Johnson, and worked with pianist, Tom Primrose, with whom he continues to collaborate.
Now an undergraduate scholar at the Royal College of Music, Tim studies with Tim Evans-Jones and is coached by Andrew Robinson and Lawrence Zazzo. Whilst at RCM he has taken part in master classes with Lawrence Zazzo, Patricia Bardon and Masaaki Suzuki. During this time, he has worked with such preeminent early music figures as trumpeter David Blackadder, viola da gamba player Vittorio Ghielmi, flautist and conductor Ashley Solomon and countertenor, Michael Chance.
2014 marked an important point in Tim’s early career. Highlights include winning the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers, appearing on BBC3’s Music Matters performing a previously unrecorded aria from Gluck’s Opera, Artamene, performing Handel’s Messiah with The Hanover Band, and returning to Norwich Cathedral as a soloist Bach’s St Matthew Passion. He also had the pleasure of performing at the Brighton Early Music Festival and as a young artist at Southrepps Classical Music Festival.
2015 continues to prove fruitful with particular oratorio highlights of Bach’s St John Passion with players from RCM and Salzburg Mozarteum and Handel’s Dixit Dominus with Genesis Sixteen and Harry Christophers. This season, he understudied the role of ‘Apollo’ in Garsington Opera’s production of Britten’s Death in Venice and took part in British Youth Opera’s summer workshops.
Currently, Tim is studying on the Erasmus scheme at Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag, where his teachers are Rita Dams and Michael Chance. Tim is the understudy for Michael Chance in the first production of Calliope Tsoupaki’s new opera, Mariken in de Tuin de Lusten with contemporary opera company, Opera2day, and the Dutch National Theatre.
Forthcoming highlights for 2015/16 include Handel’s Messiah with Norwich Cathedral Choir, a performance of Bach’s St John Passion with The Hanover Band, a recital at Raynham Hall with soprano, Rowan Pierce, understudying the role of Polinesso in Handel’s Ariodante with the RCM International Opera School, and his debut at the London Handel Festival as Arsace in Handel’s Berenice with La Nuova Musica.