British conductor Tim Murray’s current engagements include a new production of Hindemith’s Cardillac Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, West Side Story Royal Danish Opera, Bournonville’s Et Folkesagn Royal Danish Orchestra and Ballet, Last Night of the Proms concert Krakow Opera House, and programme featuring works by Berio and Agata Zubel London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall.
In Opera, he most recently conducted a new production of Street Scene Teatro Real, Madrid and Oper Köln, George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill Teatros del Canal, Madrid, Mandela Trilogy Cape Town Opera (UK tour, Ravenna Festival, Dubai Opera and Hong Kong Arts Festival), Der fliegende Holländer, The Merry Widow, Orphee ed Euridice and Carmen Cape Town Opera, Porgy and Bess Teatro Colón and Teatro Real, Madrid, and with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Charlotte Bray’s Out of the Ruins (premiere) on the main-stage, and the UK premiere of Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest, which he revived at the Barbican. He made a debut with the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris with Weill’s Street Scene. He conducted Porgy and Bess at the Liceu Barcelona, L’Opéra National de Bordeaux, London Coliseum and Artscape Theatre Cape Town.
In contemporary dance, he conducted a triple bill, including Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx Royal Ballet, Covent Garden and a programme including The Rite of Spring for Hong Kong Philharmonic and Ballet.. He collaborated with choreographer Wayne McGregor in his debut with the Royal Ballet and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, conducting Berkeley’s arrangement of Bach’s The Art of Fugue. Also with McGregor: Le Sacre du Printemps Hamburg/Cape Town City Ballet, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s premiere Undance Sadlers Wells, recorded for NMC Records. Other dance projects: Carmen suite Royal Danish Orchestra and Ballet,and The Soldier’s Tale Tokyo’s New National Theater and Osaka, and The Wind in the Willows and Pinocchio ROH, both with choreographer Will Tuckett.
Concert work includes Stravinsky concert London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Dark Mirror: Zender’s Winterreise Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra, A Child of our Time Orquesta y Coro de Radio Televisión Española, BBC Proms (w/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group), Philharmonia Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra (works by Stravinsky and Ligeti), Chroma (including works by Jonathan Harvey), Festival of English Music/Ghent Conservatorium, LPO and BBC Singers. In 2015, he conducted the LPO in a televised concert at Wembley Stadium.
He was Associate Music Director Cape Town Opera and former Music Director of Tête à Tête Festival in London, conducting 22 world premieres. He was a “Newcomer” finalist in the 2015 International Opera Awards.
Murray studied at Cambridge University, Royal College of Music, Tanglewood Music Center and with Oliver Knussen at the Britten-Pears School.
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News | Tim Murray
News | Tim Murray
"Tim Murray, associate music director of Cape Town Opera and a “newcomer” finalist in the 2015 International Opera awards, conducted. His, like so many in this versatile and thriving company, is a name to watch."
Observer
"Tim Murray conducts a particularly in-form Orchestre National de Bordeaux. Energetic and accurate in every detail, his direction highlights the different styles that coexist in the score (jazz, blues, gospel), while bringing out the theatrical dimension of the opera."
Forum Opera
"Such comic moments aside, it was Tim Murray’s conducting and Britten Sinfonia’s superb playing that really stole the show. Murray’s leadership was flawless throughout."
Bachtrack
"We know this opera from recordings, but the music played live and sung live, and in addition with such precision and vigour as conducted by Briton Tim Murray in Teatr Wielki, this is completely another thing."
Gazeta Wyborcza