Timothy Reyn­ish stud­ied horn with Aubrey Brain and Frank Probyn. He was a music scholar at Cam­bridge, work­ing under Ray­mond Lep­pard and Sir David Will­cocks and held prin­cipal horn pos­i­tions with the North­ern Sin­fonia, Sadler’s Wells Opera (now ENO), and the City of Birm­ing­ham Sym­phony Orches­tra. At Birm­ing­ham in the sev­en­ties, he foun­ded the Birm­ing­ham Sin­foni­etta from mem­bers of the CBSO and gave a series of con­tem­por­ary con­certs; he also con­duc­ted the Lon­don Con­tem­por­ary Play­ers and was Guest Con­ductor with the Ams­ter­dam Sinfonia.

His con­duct­ing stud­ies were on short courses with George Hurst at Can­ford Sum­mer School, Sir Charles Groves and Sir Adrian Boult, with Dean Dixon in Hil­ver­sum and Franco Fer­rara in Acca­demia Musicale Chi­gi­ana in Siena, where he won the Dip­loma of Merit. A prize win­ner in the Mitro­poulos Inter­na­tional Con­duct­ing Com­pet­i­tion in New York, he has con­duc­ted con­certs with the City of Birm­ing­ham Sym­phony Orches­tra, the Royal Liv­er­pool Phil­har­monic Orches­tra, the Halle Orches­tra, the BBC Regional Orches­tras and the Lon­don Sym­phony Orches­tra as well as in Nor­way, Hol­land and Ger­many. In 1975 he was invited by Sir Charles Groves to become tutor for the Post­gradu­ate Con­duct­ing Course at the Royal North­ern Col­lege of Music. Two years later he suc­ceeded Philip Jones as Head of School of Wind & Per­cus­sion, a post he retired from after over a quarter of a century.

He was awar­ded a Churchill Trav­el­ling Fel­low­ship in 1982 which enabled him to study the devel­op­ment and rep­er­toire of the Amer­ican sym­phonic wind band move­ment. In the past two dec­ades he developed the wind orches­tra and ensemble of the RNCM to become recog­nised as one of the best in the world, com­mis­sion­ing works from com­posers such as Richard Rod­ney Ben­nett, John Casken, Thea Mus­grave and Aulis Sal­linen, per­form­ing reg­u­larly in major Fest­ivals such as Alde­burgh, Chel­ten­ham, Hud­der­sfield and Three Choirs, broad­cast­ing for BBC and Clas­sic FM, play­ing at three WASBE Con­fer­ences and mak­ing com­mer­cial com­pact discs for Doyen, Serendip­ity and Chandos.

He has given clin­ics, lec­tured, guest con­duc­ted and adju­dic­ated in Argen­tina, Bel­gium, Canada, Den­mark, Esto­nia, France, Ger­many, Hun­gary, Israel, Japan, Nor­way, Oman, Sweden, Switzer­land, Tur­key and the USA. For ten years was Editor of the Nov­ello Wind Band & Ensemble series and he is now Editor with Mae­cenas Music. His engage­ments recently have included con­certs and con­duct­ing clin­ics in Brazil, Canada, Croa­tia, Latvia, Ire­land, Israel, Sweden, Switzer­land and the USA. In 2000 he toured Aus­tralia and New Zea­l­and, con­duct­ing and lec­tur­ing on Brit­ish wind music, and in the Fall was a House­wright Scholar at Flor­ida State Uni­ver­sity; in Spring 2002 he was Vis­it­ing Pro­fessor at the School of Music, Baylor Uni­ver­sity, Texas, and dur­ing the Fall 2003 was Vis­it­ing Pro­fessor at Uni­ver­sity of Ken­tucky, Lex­ing­ton. He was Pres­id­ent of WASBE, the World Asso­ci­ation for Sym­phonic Bands & Ensembles from 2001 until 2002.

His appear­ances in the USA have included con­duct­ing engage­ments at Uni­ver­sit­ies of Ari­zona State, Col­or­ado, Con­necti­cut, Flor­ida State, Illinois, Iowa State, Ithaca Col­lege, Louis­ville, Michigan, Michigan State, Syra­cuse, Stet­son, Ten­nessee Tech, Texas at Aus­tin, West­ern Ken­tucky, Vander­bilt and West­ern Michigan.

In the Fall of 2005 he assumed the post of Senior Pro­fessor in Wood­wind and Brass at the Guild­hall School of Music and Drama, and con­duc­ted the Wind Ensemble in a gala con­cert at the Bar­bican, cel­eb­rat­ing the 125th anniversary of the found­ing of the Guild­hall. In the Spring of 2006 he is vis­it­ing Pro­fessor at Ithaca Col­lege, and in June returns to the Royal North­ern Col­lege of Music in a pro­gramme of his com­mis­sions, includ­ing works by Adam Gorb, Chris­topher Mar­shall and Edwin Roxburgh. In the Autumn he will con­duct per­form­ances of La Travi­ata for Clonter Farm Opera.

At the Can­ford Sum­mer School he is the Wind Fac­ulty Dir­ector for the annual Wind Band Con­duct­ors’ Course and the Sym­phonic Wind Orches­tra which will be held in the week of August 6 — 13, 2006.

More inform­a­tion can be found at www.timreynish.com