Musical Director
TIM
ARMSTRONG-TAYLOR
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Tim Armstrong Taylor as our new Musical Director, starting in September 2017. Tim is a
conductor, singer, composer, writer, teacher and producer. As a boy his ubiquitous singing habit led him
to his local church choir where he discovered a love a choral music, which has
lasted a lifetime. He went on to study singing at the Guildhall School of music
and drama and stayed there for sometime including graduating from the opera
course.
Work has
taken him all over the world singing with choirs such as the Monteverdi choir
and the Schutz choir and singing operatic roles and oratorios throughout
Europe. He has worked as a session singer
on many British and US movies and sung all over the world with his company
Opera on the Run. Last year he performed `The
Perfect Picnic’ (music by Mozart libretto by Tim) at the Arcola Theatre’s
annual opera season Grimeborn. He had
the privilege of being a Royal National Theatre company member for a year of
Sondheim’s A Little Night Music
singing alongside Dame Judi Dench.
More recently
he has focused on musical direction and producing events and musical
productions for Classical Mayhem, including extensively touring with his identical
twin brother in their Victor and Albert comedy
cabaret shows and productions such as ‘Decomposed!
My brother is turning into a Zombie’, which received great critical acclaim
at the Edinburgh festival in 2014 and has since been performed at the Teatru
Manoel in Malta, at the Vault festival in London and elsewhere across the UK.
Tim directs
three choirs, from a church choir to a large village choir and is really looking
forward to taking over as musical director of Uxbridge Choral Society in Autumn
2017. He will be conducting Mendelssohn’s Elijah
in January 2018 and Jenkins’ The
Armed Man in May 2018.
As a
composer/arranger he has written three chamber operas including ‘The Devil’s Deputy’ (performed at St
Alban’s Arts Festival) and has written choral settings, arrangements and many comic
songs for Victor and Albert.
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