Timothy Williams is an award-winning composer of film and theater, a conductor and orchestrator. Born in England in 1966, he moved to Canada in 1970. He studied music at the Toronto Conservatory of Music and the Victoria Conservatory of Music. He won many piano competitions and was originally on a path to be a concert pianist. He studied composition with Murray Adaskin. In 1986, he moved to England and worked at the BBC as copyist and orchestrator.
He returned to Toronto in 1989 to write Napoleon (musical), which opened in 1994. It was nominated for a Dora Award for Best New Musical. EMI released a Highlights Album on their Angel Broadway label. In 1996, he moved to England and worked with Directors Gale Edwards and Francesca Zambello to rework Napoleon (musical) until its opening at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End Theatre District in 2000.
Timothy has scored numerous feature films including Tom Hanks produced WWII documentary "Beyond All Boundaries", the multi Award Winning "Butterfly Circus", the award winning "The Mulberry Tree", Sony's "Playmobil: Secret of Pirate Island", "Playmobil: Quest for the Golden Scepter", MGM's A Dog's Breakfast, the Award Winning "Up In The Air", "The Passage", "Star Crossed", "Stephen King's Gotham Cafe", "The Lutefiske Wars", "Brazen Bull".
He scored additional music for Conan_the_Barbarian_(2011_film), as well as licensed cues on 300, Watchmen, Super, Sucker Punch, Tales of the Black Freighter, Doomsday, and Shark_Night_3D.
In addition to orchestrating the above, Timothy orchestrated and conducted the Main Theme for Green Hornet, The Way, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Halloween, Slither, and Half Past Dead. Timothy Williams has orchestrated for Tyler Bates, Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, Robert Duncan, John Kavanaugh, Tom Rainier and Bruce Broughton.
Timothy co-scored the video game score of Rise of the Argonauts with composer Tyler Bates and orchestrated and conducted Transformers (VG) and Army of Two: The 40th Day.
He has written music for over 25 spectacle shows for Disney, Universal Studios and Seaworld, including Universal's adaptation of "Wicked", Disney's "Aladdin" (Thea Award) at California Adventure, Disney's "Snow White", Disney's "Believe", Disney's "Wishes", Disney's "Twice Charmed", Seaworld's "Blue Horizons", Georgia Aquarium Dolphin Show, Disney's "Candlelight Reflection", Disney's "Rhythms of The World", Disney's "Glow In The Park", Universal Studio's "Sorciere" and Universal's "Peter Pan" (Thea Award) and Napoleon (musical), the West End show. He also composed the score for the Georgia Aquarium's "Dolphin Tales".
Timothy co-composed the score for TV series "Sym-Bionic Titan" with Tyler Bates and Dieter Hartmann.
He has won 3 Thea (award)s and a Dora Award for the projects "Aladdin - A Disney Spectacular", Universal's "Peter Pan" and Beyond All Boundaries. He won Best Original Soundtrack for Butterfly Circus at the 24 FPS International Film Festival and 8 ASCAP Plus Awards. He has 14 Soundtracks released.
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