Timothy Salter (born in

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in 1942) is an English composer, conductor and pianist.

Biography

Timothy Salter studied at

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...

, where he won the John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship in sacred music. His piano teachers included

York Bowen Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist. Bowen's musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a tal ...

and Lamar Crowson. He has composed chamber and orchestral music, choral music and songs. He set up Usk Recordings in 1995 and is the musical director of the Ionian Singers. His compositions include a Sinfonietta (1981) and a Symphony (1981), the saxophone concerto ''Chameleon'' (2008), and much chamber music, including three string quartets (1980, 1983, 2010), the Clarinet Quintet (2009), a Piano Quartet (2006), a Piano Quintet (1990), a Piano Trio (1987) and two piano sonatas (1961, 1989). Vocal works include the song cycles ''Four Hopkins Songs'' (1968), ''After the Sun'' (1988) and ''Life'' (1988). He is co-author with

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and Alison Young of ''Thomas Campion, Poet, Composer, Physician''. For many years he taught composition and performance studies at the

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, where he designed collaborative composer/performer courses and in conjunction with

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conducted the Twentieth Century Ensemble. He was awarded the Fellowship of the

in 2004 for services to music.

References

External links

Timothy Salter's Website
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