About our conductor, Tim Tricker
Tim Tricker is a com
poser and conductor who grew up in the village of Elmsett, Suffolk. He moved to Scotland in 1989 and is now based in Aberdeen. As well as Concordia String Orchestra, Tim is also the conductor of the Grampian Concert Orchestra, the Grampian Health Services Choir, and regularly guest conducts the Aberdeen City Orchestra.
An accomplished composer, his piece Ninian’s Lilt (an orchestral work devised around a locally-written melody) premiered in the Czech Republic in 2008, and has subsequently been performed in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Tim was one of the finalists in the BBC Radio 3 Carol Competition 2020, where his ‘Christmas Carol’ melody was arranged by Clare Wheeler and recorded by the BBC Singers. Most recently, Tim won the ISM prize in the Růžičková Composition Competition for his string quartet piece Beam Splitter in B minor.
Tim’s two set of Fragments for String Orchestra have been recorded by Concordia String Orchestra on their consecutive CDs Concordia Recorded and Concordia Recorded II, together with his Miniature Suite for Strings and an arrangement for strings of Edward MacDowall’s Woodland Sketches.
poser and conductor who grew up in the village of Elmsett, Suffolk. He moved to Scotland in 1989 and is now based in Aberdeen. As well as Concordia String Orchestra, Tim is also the conductor of the Grampian Concert Orchestra, the Grampian Health Services Choir, and regularly guest conducts the Aberdeen City Orchestra.An accomplished composer, his piece Ninian’s Lilt (an orchestral work devised around a locally-written melody) premiered in the Czech Republic in 2008, and has subsequently been performed in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Tim was one of the finalists in the BBC Radio 3 Carol Competition 2020, where his ‘Christmas Carol’ melody was arranged by Clare Wheeler and recorded by the BBC Singers. Most recently, Tim won the ISM prize in the Růžičková Composition Competition for his string quartet piece Beam Splitter in B minor.
Tim’s two set of Fragments for String Orchestra have been recorded by Concordia String Orchestra on their consecutive CDs Concordia Recorded and Concordia Recorded II, together with his Miniature Suite for Strings and an arrangement for strings of Edward MacDowall’s Woodland Sketches.
