"Conductor Timothy Henty is young, and talented, and brilliant - he has a genuine enthusiasm for this opera that is infectious, and NO-ONE can resist a conductor who is visibly enjoying himself throughout the performance".
(thingstodoinmanchester.blogspot.com on Ruddigore - Opera North at The Lowry, November 2011)
Biography
Still only 30, British conductor Timothy Henty is quickly developing a strong international reputation both in the theatre and on the concert platform.Orchestras he has conducted include the Royal Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras; the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra; the Northern Sinfonia; the Holland Symfonia; the Malmö Opera Orchestra; the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, where he made his début at the age of 24.
His opera and operetta credits include leading Opera North’s acclaimed Ruddigore across the UK, having been invited to take over the production from John Wilson. Further engagements have included La Traviata (King’s Theatre), A Man of Feeling (Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola). He is known throughout the UK for his work in the field of British light opera and conducted the critically acclaimed revivals of Florodora and Our Miss Gibbs (Finborough) as well as Trial by Jury; HMS Pinafore; The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival.
In 2008, Timothy collaborated with director Anthony Baker to create a new performing version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s lost opera Thespis, which received wide critical praise and has now enjoyed three productions internationally to date.
Timothy has conducted radio broadcast performances with both RTÉ orchestras, and has recorded in the studio with the BBC SSO, the RLPO and with the Malmö Opera Orchestra. An experienced producer in the studio, his credits include the MoreThan Freeman adverts as well as several other films and commercials. Timothy conducted the soundtracks to the films Little Ashes and The Goodbye Plane. In December 2012 he was invited to conduct for Michel Legrand during his New Year's Eve Concert, broadcast on RTÉ Lyric FM.
Timothy began his career as a conductor for dance and maintains a strong interest in this field. In 2006 he was made a Guest Conductor of the Royal Ballet and since then has regularly led performances for Dutch National Ballet; Scottish Ballet; Northern Ballet; Skånes Dansteater and extensively for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.
He is active as an orchestrator and arranger and his works have been performed throughout the UK by several ensembles including the Philharmonia Orchestra and the RLPO. His television appearances include The One Show; The Andrew Marr Show (BBC) and Gilbert and Sullivan - A Motley Pair (SkyArts).
Born in England, Timothy won a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he studied conducting with Professor Neil Thomson and won the Tagore Gold Medal, the RCM’s highest award for its most outstanding student, presented to him by HRH The Prince of Wales.
Forthcoming
Engagements for the 2012/2013 season see Timothy returning to the RTÉ Concert Orchestra; Skånes Dansteater in Malmö and to Scottish Ballet. He will also conduct semi-staged performances of The Mikado at the Royal Festival Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham and Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. During the 2013-14 season, engagements include returns to the Skånes Dansteater and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and his debut with the Sinfonieorchester Basel, working with Ballett Basel on a new production by Richard Wherlock.
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that the above biography is for information only and is not to be produced without permission.
For a current biography, please contact Nicholas Curry at Clarion/Seven Muses.
that the above biography is for information only and is not to be produced without permission.
For a current biography, please contact Nicholas Curry at Clarion/Seven Muses.
Timothy Henty's page at Clarion Seven Muses
"...Played live by members of the Royal Ballet Sinfonia under Timothy Henty’s baton, [the music] sounds wonderful".
(Donald Hutera on Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands at Sadler's Wells, The Times, December 2008)"Sullivan's music sparkled merrily, played by an excellent pit band under Henty's vivacious baton"
(Rupert Christiansen on Thespis at the Normansfield Theatre, March 2008. Opera - May '08 edition)
"With the London Kensington Sinfonia conducted by Timothy Henty, the result was a marvel of musical reconstruction"
(John Thaxter on Baker and Henty's new performing version of Gilbert and Sullivan's Thespis at the Normansfield Theatre, Richmond and Twickenham Times, March 2008)
"Not least of the evening's pleasures is the orchestral playing in the pit under Timothy Henty, contributing fully to the show's sense of 'special occasion'" ****
(Michael Coveney on Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! at Sadler's Wells, What's On Stage, December 2007)
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(John Thaxter on Baker and Henty's new performing version of Gilbert and Sullivan's Thespis at the Normansfield Theatre, Richmond and Twickenham Times, March 2008)
"Not least of the evening's pleasures is the orchestral playing in the pit under Timothy Henty, contributing fully to the show's sense of 'special occasion'" ****
(Michael Coveney on Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! at Sadler's Wells, What's On Stage, December 2007)
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"Conductor Timothy Henty directs a first rate band with a light touch" ****
(Robert Cockcroft on HMS PInafore/Trial by Jury at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, Yorkshire Post, August 2009)
"...The Piece - musically directed by Timothy Henty, could hardly be better done".
(Michael Billington on 'Florodora' at the Finborough Theatre, The Guardian, January 2006)
(Michael Billington on 'Florodora' at the Finborough Theatre, The Guardian, January 2006)
"To have brought off a performance of this supremely complex work a tenth as good as the one presided over by Timothy Henty would have justified the audacious enterprise. What we heard was a marvel... the most gripping, sheerly beautiful realisation of Gruppen that I've heard".
(Paul Driver on Stockhausen's 'Gruppen', Sunday Times, May 2004)
(Paul Driver on Stockhausen's 'Gruppen', Sunday Times, May 2004)
"Conductor Timothy Henty presides over the music with a real sense of brio".
(George Hall on Florodora, The Stage, January 2006)
(George Hall on Florodora, The Stage, January 2006)
“Anyone who's seen his performances will know what an exact, inspiring and vivid presence Henty is on the conducting podium”.
(James Murphy, Guest Commentator for BBC Proms live television broadcasts)
“What a lovely evening altogether. And can I please put in a Big Hooray for the debutante conductor Timothy Henty. He marshalled the forces in the pit with an ability defying his youth...the music was delightfully part of the whole performance...with his clear attention to his musicians in the pit and the dancers on stage”.
(Member of the audience writing into www.ballet.co.uk after a performance of Coppélia at the Royal Opera House, October 2006)
(Member of the audience writing into www.ballet.co.uk after a performance of Coppélia at the Royal Opera House, October 2006)