Tim Coker was born in Walsall, West Midlands. He is published by Edition HH.
 

His recent music theatre work Walking not Driving won critical acclaim during this summer's UK tour performed by The Opera Group.
 

Other recent works include a piece for recorder consort Fontanella and a series of pieces for period instrument ensemble Passacaglia with virtuoso recorder player Dan Laurin. His choral work My Soul There is a Countrie commissioned by Finchley Chamber Choir which featured on LWT’s Artworks programme. He has recently completed a large-scale music theatre piece based on Shakespeare's The Tempest combining live and recorded sound.
 

Tim read Music at the Birmingham Conservatoire where he studied composition with John Joubert. After graduating with First Class Honours, he began post-graduate studies at Manchester University with John Casken, where he was awarded a Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust Scholarship. He later studied with John Woolrich and Simon Holt at Royal Holloway, University of London and has recently completed his doctorate entitled Dramma Per Musica - Towards a New Music-Theatre.
 

Tim has three times been on the Society for the Promotion of New Music's shortlist.
 

In 1994 his first String Quartet, Odi Profanum Vulgus et Arceo was performed at the Cheltenham Festival by the Duke String Quartet and in 2000 the BBC Singers performed his anthem, Only Our Love.
 

In 1998, Tim was a finalist for the Yorkshire and Humberside Young Composer’s Award and his piece for mixed ensemble, Digger, digger was performed by the Orkest de Volharding at the 1998 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
 

His choral work, What the Sea Saw (commissioned for the 10th anniversary of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster for the Academic Scholars Chamber Choir) has been released on CD entitled, Hereditary Voices.
 

Tim has also had works performed by the Lindsay String Quartet, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the New Music Players and the Composer’s Ensemble.

Read what the reviewers had to say about Tim’s acclaimed miniature opera Walking not Driving here.
 

New Music Theatre Project
Work on a major new music-theatre commission for recorder ensemble, multi-media sound and video and live actors for a performance next year at the Purcell Room in London is now underway.

More information on performances and how to buy tickets here soon.
 

Mo