Faculty of Music

Tim Brown

Tim Brown is Director of Music and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He is also the college’s Director of Studies for music. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was an alto choral scholar, and at Westminster College, Oxford, during which time he was a lay clerk in the choir of New College. After ten years of schoolteaching and professional singing he returned to Cambridge in 1979.

Tim Brown teaches harmony and counterpoint as well as keyboard and aural skills. He also assists in the administration of the University Instrumental Awards Scheme. He devotes a large part of his working life to the activities of Clare College Chapel Choir, with its busy schedule of concerts, tours and recordings in addition to its chapel responsibilities. Most recent recordings include the world première recording of Sweelink’s Cantiones Sacrae, Blow’s Venus and Adonis (directed René Jacobs), and the CD Illumina. He is the founder/director of the present Cambridge University Chamber Choir and the professional vocal ensemble, English Voices. He also freelances as a conductor all over the world, and has recently worked with René Jacobs on operatic productions in Berlin and Antwerp. He is a contributing editor to the Faber Choral Series and to the complete works of William Walton, published by Oxford University Press. Volume 6, Shorter Choral Works without Orchestra, was published in 1999.