Tim Parkinson

Tim Parkinson (born 7 July 1973) is a British experimental composer, pianist and curator. His music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles including Apartment House, the Basel Sinfonietta and the London Sinfonietta, and soloists including Anton Lukoszevieze and Rhodri Davies. It has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Resonance FM, WDR3 (Germany), and Radio SRF 2 Kultur (Switzerland). He is co-curator (alongside composer John Lely) of the concert series Music We’d Like to Hear, which has run since 2005, having previously organised concerts at the British Music Information Centre in London from 1997 onwards. Education Parkinson attended Bedford School before studying at Worcester College, Oxford and privately in Dublin with Kevin Volans, and participating in the Ostrava Days 2001. In 2011 he was visiting Professor of Composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and has taught at Ashmole Academy. In 2018 he was appointed a creative fellow at the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading. Style and career His music has also been described as consisting of “melodious, somewhat Sixties sounds”, inspired by an older generation of British