Michael Sidney Timpson
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Michael Sidney Timpson (born February 26, 1970, in Mountain View, California) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
Early life and education
Timpson was born and grew up in Silicon Valley, California, at the height of the computer age.[when?] Although still regularly frequenting that area, he has also lived in Los Angeles, Upstate New York, Michigan, Kansas, Memphis, England, and Taiwan. Most recently he resided in Tampa, Florida before moving to Seoul, Korea in August 2010.[citation needed]
A child of the multicultural era in Northern California, he was intrigued with Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian, and Oceanic traditional music in his formative years; seeds that would eventually bear a lasting impact on his musical style.[
He earned a BM at the University of Southern California, an MA at the Eastman School of Music, and a DMA at the University of Michigan; his notable teachers include Samuel Adler, William Albright, William Bolcom, Morten Lauridsen and Joseph Schwantner.
Career
Although clearly a composer of the concert art-music genre,[citation needed] his definitive style combines elements of European, American, and Asian musical sources. His music is written for nearly every medium, including orchestral, chamber, band, percussion, electronic, vocal, and even non-western instruments. His two most well-known and performed compositions are Chasin’ Bill for Chinese silk and bamboo ensemble and CRUSH for soprano saxophone and Chinese Guzheng.
The nature of his music is eclectic, stemming from maximalism to minimalism, modernism to postmodernism, and fluidly combines tonality and atonality.
His musical beginnings were borne out of playing baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, often manipulating the latter instrument with guitar pedals; he was also co-founder of the group
He has recently[
References
- Michael Sidney Timson page at Chinesezheng.com (archive from 11 October 2008, accessed 28 January 2018).
- http://mysite.verizon.net/resquw01 [dead link]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100621190822/http://music.arts.usf.edu/bio_timpson.html
- http://www.myspace.com/michaeltimpson