Tim writes words and music...
He studied at the marvelous Royal College of Music, opposite the Albert Hall in South Kensington where he was Bliss Scholar, then a Junior Professor. He's now Professor of Music at the University of Hertfordshire, and lives right nearby in leafy St Albans with his wife Julia and sons, James and Alex (when they're not being choristers at Christ Church, Oxford.)
Tim loves writing – getting lost in magical worlds of pure imagination. He
still prefers reading children's books to many adult books as he finds the writing more honest, imaginative and less dreary...
Tim as writer... It started early with crazy stories stuck together with covers to make little books. Then Tim was torn between studying English or Music. Having opted for music, the books have been trying to get out ever since, until one day he just couldn't stop them... And what about ideas? Having always been a day-dreamer, there's never any shortage of them. Meeting an unusual person might spark an idea or a piece of music, or a memory. And he has some synaesthesia, so musical keys have associations like crystal, wood or light, and words have musical qualities of texture and sometimes, even taste sensations. It can be really useful for expressing ideas in a new way. Tim as composer and academic...
He was a composition scholar at the Royal College of Music, which has
been central to British music in the 20th century, with composers such as
Vaughan Williams, Holst, Ireland, Britten and Tippett all passing through its
doors. As a postgraduate student at the Royal College, he was appointed as a
Junior Professor, becoming Head of Composition
and
Musicianship Studies in 1994.
Having been appointed as a Visiting Professor for the
State University of New York, he also helped establish the Musical Theatre Course
at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, described by Cameron Macintosh as ‘the
best musical-theatre course in the world.’ He has been active as a conductor,
including leading conducting masterclasses at Cambridge University since 1999, and from
2003-6, as Director of Ealing Abbey Choir. In January 2006 he was appointed
Head of Music at the University of Hertfordshire (one of the biggest Music
Departments in the UK), and in October 2006, he was appointed Professor of
Music.
He has received many awards from the Arts Council, PRS and the RVW Trust
as well as five prizes for composition; he has many published works, CD
recordings and has received broadcasts in the UK on BBC 1, Channel 4, Radio 3
and Radio 4, alongside international performances, recordings and broadcasts. His three-movement saxophone quartet, Sculptures,
has been played by every leading quartet in the world and recorded by six. He has been invited to judge
the British Composer Awards (BBC Radio 3, British Academy) for 3 years (the
composition equivalent of the Man Booker Prize), and he represents the University as a Director,
Trustee and Corporate Representative of the ISM, and advises the ISM on marketing. His recent choral CD Reflections
is currently receiving multiple BBC broadcasts in the UK and North America, and his collaboration with celebrated psychologist Prof. Richard Wiseman, creating the music for The World's Most Relaxing Room, was covered by all the key press and media in the world, including: BBC TV News, The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian in the UK.
A Google search for Tim Blinko will find hundreds of pages about his work as a composer and professor. What is it with British professors writing children's books? Find out more... | – The Royal College of Music
 Christ Church, Oxford
 'Synaesthesia – [Oxford Concise Dictionary]the production of a mental sense-impression relating to one sense by the stimulation of another sense.' The de Havilland Auditorium
Performance of TJ Blinko's Gemini Concerto The University of Hertfordshire  The Music Building
The University of Hertfordshire  'The music was euphoric' – The Times [TJ Blinko's music for The World's
Most Relaxing Room] |
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