Young Performers' Concert Series

Thursday 1 July

Tim was a chorister at York Minster before winning a

Major Music Scholarship to Eton College. He was

taught to play the cello by his mother Sue Lowe and

by Anna Shuttleworth. He was a member of the

National Youth Orchestra from the age of 13 and was Principal Cello in 2004. He won a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music and after one year transferred to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study with Louise Hopkins who continues to inspire his playing. He graduated in 2008 with a First Class honours degree.

Tim made his concerto debut age 11 playing the Saint-Saëns concerto at York Minster and Selby Abbey with York University Chamber Orchestra. Since then he has played concertos and recitals throughout the UK and abroad. As a chamber musician he has performed in major venues including Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St John’s Smith Square and St James’s Piccadilly.

Tim has won many awards and prizes including from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Craxton Memorial Trust, Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and the Countess of Munster Award scheme (and is a member of the Trust’s Recital Scheme for 2010/11). In 2008 he won the English Chamber Orchestra Duchess of Cornwall Prize. He also won the Jacqueline du Pré Scholarship sponsored by the Lerverhulme Trust to support his postgraduate studies at the GSMD, which he combines with his busy concert and recital schedule.

Tim is a ‘Recommended Artist’ for the 2010 season under Making Music’s Philip and Dorothy Green Award scheme and is being promoted by the Countess of Munster Trust’s Recital Scheme for 2010/11.

 Recent performance highlights

Highlights of the last twelve months were Tim’s performances of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations in the University of York Concert series, the Elgar concerto in Southwell Minster and Haydn’s D Major concerto with the Derby Festival Orchestra where he was winner of the festival Gold Medal. His recitals during 2009 include appearances at the Holywell Rooms Oxford, St James’s Church Piccadilly, Southwell Minster and the National Centre for Early Music in York. He recently played the Haydn D major concerto at Lady Walton’s festival on the island of Ischia, Italy and future engagements include the Schumann concerto in Edinburgh and recitals in York, Wakefield, Edinburgh, London and a return to Ischia.

Tim’s playing has inspired a number of composers to write new pieces most recently James Week’s Partita for solo cello. Tim is holder of the prestigious Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Concert for Cancer Research UK

28 September | 7.30pm

Grosvenor chapel

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