"Turnage's score [Undance] ... plays with dualisms such as to dig/to
twist, to slide/to fall, with results that are engrossingly varied and
surprisingly lyrical, even pretty. Tim Murray conducts with verve and precision."
"Deazley writes marvellously well for chorus, and the WNYO repay him with
choral singing of a precision and intensity I could listen to for
hours, ... the whole thing is conducted con bravura by Tim Murray."
"...the music director Tim Murray works hard with the director
John Fulljames and a cast of classical singers, dancers and musical-theatre
thesps to keep it all going at a nail-biting pace."
"...Julian Grant's music is luminously attractive..." "...Tim Murray's conducting of the group Chroma is fine."
Warwick Thompson, Metro
"Nursed by the Genesis Opera Project, brought to vigorous life by Bill Bankes-Jones and the Tête à Tête company, Push! repairs the omission with wit and panache; tenderness too."
"Fun to play for the musicians, under the alert beat of the conductor, Tim Murray."
"Push! is a wonderfully entertaining small-scale piece of music theatre
with a score by David Bruce and a libretto by Anna Reynolds...Bruce's
score, conducted by Tim Murray, is buoyantly inventive...the versatile
cast of eight performs with irresistible panache...Push! certainly
delivers."
"...the unlikely subject of childbirth makes for great opera..."
"There is depth here as well as surface, and a sense of tonal pacing
that is more than merely “effective”. When Maddy sings of “loving no
one, loved by none”, there is a chord change on the last word to clinch
the matter. The conductor, Tim Murray, ensured that it did."
"For the Kagel and Fokkens, Mackenzie was joined by conductor Tim Murray
and the New Professionals Orchestra — a talented band, all in their
twenties. I loved their two extracts from Kagel’s Die Stücke der Windrose (The Points of the Compass)"
"It was all impeccably prepared. I’d like to hear it again."
"The instrumental playing by the nine-piece ensemble is excellent, and conductor Tim Murray's skills ensure a slick, cogent performance."
Stephen Pettitt, Evening Standard
"The score conjures surging rivers, precipitous mountains and even a
moving mysticism from a nine-piece ensemble, conducted with conviction
by Tim Murray."
"...consistently served with crisp and sparkling accompaniment under Tim Murray's baton."
Geoff Brown, The Times
Nancarrow, Study for Orchestra (European Premiere)
"Six conductors rejected the Study as unplayable before it received its
premiere; to facilitate its performance Adès had renotated the first
movement so that it could be directed relatively simply by himself and
Tim Murray together, one beating in four to the other's five. Watching
this intricate operation was almost as fascinating as, undeniably, was
the music itself."
