about / biog
Stage direction, scenography, film/moving image, performance, creative direction, digital art
Tim has directed for Aldeburgh Festival, Almeida Opera, Aurora Orchestra, Batignano Opera Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper Festspiele, BBC Proms, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Brighton Festival, Bühnen Graz; Channel 4 TV, Dublin Grand Opera, English National Opera, English Touring Opera, Festival Alternative Lyrique Paris, Glimmerglass Festival NY, London Artists Projects,London Sinfonietta, Opera North, The Royal Opera, Sage Gateshead, South Bank Centre London, Staatsoper Hannover, Teatro Dell’Opera Roma, Theatre Basel, Welsh National Opera, Wexford Festival and others.
Productions include historic and contemporary opera and new projects he has created solo or in collaboration. He has also worked as a Creative Director (BBC Proms Music Walk; Occupation WNO/The Space; etc). He was a National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts Fellow (2001-2005), and Arts & Humanities Research Council Fellow at the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, University of Sussex (2007-2012). His relationship with Sussex continues part-time in a Research Fellowship in experimental music theatre.
Recent : States of Innocence; Empathy Machine, with composer Rob Thomas, Opera in Virtual Reality addressing conflict, (funded by ACE, partners V & A Museum, Glyndebourne, Artists and Engineers, CROMT); Melancholy Artefacts; Encore! (London Sinfonietta 50th Anniversary, SBC) Les Barricades Mystérieuses, Augmented Reality pieces for the streets of Paris; Kagel – Présentation et al – Turning Points (London Sinfonietta), in development Robot Opera / Perform AI– with composer Evelyn Ficarra; The Big Reveal – adaptive mobile storytelling.
Recently Four Quartets on Film – film responses to work by John Woolrich, Judith Weir, Joe Cutler and Helen Grime (NMC / Strangelove / Arts Council England.) Premiere Aldeburgh Cinema, Aldeburgh Festival 2023. Current Contest Music (2026) film response to Gavin Higgins’ Concerto Grosso.
Four Quartets on Film (2023)
“Beautiful, following the form of the music with real insight:
Very moving in many places, an ingenious balance between sound and vision.” – Judith Weir