Tim Murray studied at the Royal College of Music, Cambridge University and Tanglewood
and is fast gaining an impressive reputation in contemporary operatic and
symphonic repertoire.
As the former music director
of London-based opera
company, Tête à Tête, he gave the premieres of over 20 operas,
including The Cumnor
Affair (Philip Cashian), Push! (David Bruce) and Odysseus Unwound (Julian Grant). He has a
strong relationship with the Royal Opera House, where he has conducted The Enchanted Pig (a production he toured
across theUK), Stephen McNeff’s The Gentle Giant, two dance pieces
– 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
operas have included: Fantastic Mr
Fox at Opera Holland Park; Scenes from Ordinary Life (ENO
Works);The Silent Twins (Almeida
Opera); The (Little) Magic
Flute (ETO); and Tobias & the
Angel (ETO/Young Vic). Other dance performances have included
Rambert’s Comedy of
Change tour and The Soldier’s
Tale in Japan.
In concert, Tim has conducted many important orchestras across
the UK,
most recently a broadcast with the BBC Concert Orchestra (Ligeti, Stravinsky and
Tom Arthurs commission). He made his BBC Proms
debut with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in the European premiere of
Nancarrow’s Study
for Orchestra, returning for the Julian Anderson Composer
Portrait and with the Philharmonia in a UK tour
of Prokofiev’s Peter and the
Wolf. He has also performed with Psappha, National Symphony Orchestra
of Ireland, London Mozart Players, City of London Sinfonia, New Professionals and the Manson Ensemble
of the Royal Academy of Music at the Aldeburgh
Festival. 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).
Tim’s most recent
projects have included the world premieres of The Doctor’s Tale (Anne Dudley, Terry
Jones) for ROH2 and The
Sleeper (Stephen Deazley, Michael Symmons Roberts) for Welsh National
Youth Opera, as well as a revival of Street
Scene for The Opera Group. In December he conducts a Mark Anthony Turnage double-bill (Twice Through the Heart and Undance, a new dance commission from Wayne McGregor) at Sadler’s Wells.
Future projects include
UK tours of Porgy and Bess with Cape Town Opera and
Babur for The Opera Group,
both during summer 2012.
