Timothy Redmond

Biography

Timothy Redmond is a conductor and educator. He is Professor of Conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a regular guest conductor with the London Symphony and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras and conductor and co-creator of the Royal Albert Hall’s My Great Orchestral Adventure™ concert series. 

He has appeared with most of the British orchestras, including the BBC Symphony, CBSO, Hallé, LPO, Philharmonia and RSNO and has a long-standing relationship with the Manchester Camerata. He has guest-conducted widely throughout Europe with orchestras including the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Switzerland’s Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna, and he gives concerts every season with Italy’s Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento. He has recorded for labels including EMI, Warner Classics and Harmonia Mundi and recently recorded The Orchestral Music of Jonathan Dove with the BBC Philharmonic for Orchid Classics. 

Tim is well-known as a conductor of contemporary music and has a particular association with the music of Thomas Adès. Since working closely with the composer for the premiere of The Tempest at Covent Garden, he has conducted critically-acclaimed productions of Powder Her Face for the Royal Opera House, English National Opera and Irish National Opera. He gave the Russian premiere of Powder Her Face at the Mariinsky, the Hungarian premiere of Totentanz with Concerto Budapest, the Irish premiere of Living Toys with Crash Ensemble and he conducted the composer in Concerto Conciso at the Wigmore Hall with BCMG. He also assisted Adès for the New York premiere of the Grammy-award winning production of The Tempest at the Metropolitan Opera and edited the vocal score for Faber Music. 

He began his operatic career on the music staff at De Vlaamse Opera, Garsington, Glyndebourne and Strasbourg and has now conducted over 100 productions in repertoire from Handel to Henze. Highlights include The Original Chinese Conjuror (Aldeburgh), The Cricket Recovers (Bregenz), Orpheus and Eurydice (Malta), The Golden Ticket (St Louis), Carmen (Tenerife), Dionysos Rising (Vienna) and The Silver Lake (Wexford).   

As an educator, Tim works at every level. He has devised and run education projects in the UK, US, Australia and Europe and regularly works as a consultant for leading arts organisations.  In addition to his teaching at Guildhall, he is a visiting tutor at the Royal Academy of Music, external examiner at the RNCM and he mentors young conductors internationally. He has taught courses at Dartington International Summer School, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Berlin’s Universtät der Künste, and has ongoing projects with Chetham’s School of Music, the Conservatoire de Lyon and with young musicians in the Balkans. 

Timothy Redmond studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester University and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. He furthered his studies in masterclasses with George Hurst, Ilya Musin and Pierre Boulez and as an assistant to Elgar Howarth, Valery Gergiev and Sir Colin Davis.