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, 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 ...

and

Lamar Crowson John Lamar Crowson (May 27, 1926 – August 25, 1998) was an American concert pianist and a chamber musician.'' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (2009) Crowson was born in Tampa, Florida. His early education was in Portland, Oregon, wit ...

. He has composed chamber and orchestral music, choral music and songs. He founde
Usk Recordings
in 1995 and is the musical director o
The Ionian Singers
He is co-author with

Edward Lowbury Edward Joseph Lister Lowbury (December 12, 1913 - July 10, 2007) was a pioneering and innovative English medical bacteriologist and pathologist, and also a published poet. Life Edward Lowbury was born in Hampstead to the recently naturalised Benj ...

and Alison Young of Thomas Campion, Poet, Composer, Physician, publisher: Chatto & Windus, London 1970, SBN 7011 1477 0. 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

Edwin Roxburgh Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937) is an English composer, conductor and oboist. Roxburgh was born in Liverpool. After playing oboe in the National Youth Orchestra, he won a double scholarship to study composition with Herbert Howells and oboe with T ...

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

* ttp://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/Dec05/Salter_Sun_USK1225CDS.htm Review of "After the Sun" recording, December 2005 - MusicWeb International
Review of "Piano Quartet" recording, April 2009 - MusicWeb International

Review of "The Country of the Stars" recording, October 2001 - Gramophone

Review of "Diptych" recording, April 2003 - Gramophone

* ttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/jul/23/classicalmusicandopera.artsfeatures2 Review of "Three Night Pieces" concert, July 2003 - The Guardian
Review of "Equipoise" concert, January 2003 - The Guardian

Review of "Arias for Percussion" concert, March 2006 - Classical Source

Review of "Piano Trio" concert, January 2011 - Classical Source

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