Timothy Williams (composer)
Timothy Williams is a multi award-winning composer of film, TV, video games and theater, with over 63 feature film credits. He is also 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 at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto. 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 until its opening at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End Theatre District in 2000.
Williams has scored numerous award winning feature films including Tom Hanks produced WWII documentary Beyond All Boundaries, "Red Sky", directed by Mario Van Peebles, "Walking With The Enemy", the multi award winning The Mulberry Tree, the award winning, The History of Future Folk", the top rated comedy of 2013, the multi Award Winning Butterfly Circus, 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, and Brazen Bull
He scored additional music for Conan the Barbarian, 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 and conducting all the above, Williams orchestrated and conducted the Main Theme for Green Hornet, The Way, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Halloween, Slither, and Half Past Dead. Williams has orchestrated for Tyler Bates, Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, Robert Duncan, John Kavanaugh, Tom Rainier and Bruce Broughton. He orchestrated for Valve's Dota 2 soundtrack.
Williams scored additional music on ABC's "Missing (Ep. 1-4) and Cartoon Networks "Sym Bionic Titan (22 Episodes)".
Williams co-scored the video game score of "Rise of the Argonauts with composer Tyler Bates and contributed additional music on God of War: Ascension. He orchestrated and conducted Transformers: The Game, "Wildstar" Army of Two: The 40th Day.
He has written music for over 30 live and 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", Seaworld's "Believe", Disney's "Candlelight Reflection", Disney's "Rhythms of The World", Disney's "Glow In The Park", Disney's "Buzz Lightyears Big Mission", Universal Studio's "Sorciere" and Universal's "Peter Pan" (Thea Award) and Napoleon, the West End show. He composed the score for the Georgia Aquarium's "Dolphin Tales". At least 15 shows are currently playing around the world.
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 22 Soundtracks released.
References
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragogna/from-conan-the-barbarian_b_922898.html
External links
- Timothy Williams Official Site
- Timothy Williams at the Internet Movie Database
- Napoleon The Musical Official Site