'In the Studio with Tim' - what's fish got to do with it?

Read on to find out all about this exciting new development from Studio 275 and Tim Knight Music.

On tour in Lithuania recently with my choir (the Leeds based Masterworks Chorale) one of my choir members suggested that I should start putting more information on our Tim Knight Music YouTube channel that might be of use to other composers and conductors. The reason for my choir member's suggestion was that he had recently become interested in keeping tropical fish and was amazed to find channels on YouTube that dealt with virtually every aspect of what had become his 'very expensive' new hobby!

Of course, there are many channels that we interact with daily, including those of fine organists around the world who play my pieces (notably the 'on the bench' series that the Lithuanian composer and organist Vidas Pinkevicius runs every Friday) and we all probably go to YouTube when trying to build a piece of 'easy to assemble DIY furniture' or to check maybe something wrong with our cars.

With over 30 years of experience in both composing and conducting (you can see me in the video above conducting my choir singing one of my own compositions, 'The Prayer of St Teresa'), there are probably things that I could share that would be of interest and use to others who are in the same musical professions, and so, very soon we are about to commence a regular series of videos called 'In the studio with Tim'.

Composing or Conducting?

Who knows which of these two major facets of my musical life would provide the most interest for subscribers or watchers? - maybe it would be a post on writing a melody or developing a musical idea, or maybe it would be how to get the best performance out of your choir in a strange building - after all I have conducted now in many countries around the world and in very different buildings with a vast repertoire of music.

I would really like the content to be useful, so maybe answering questions that have been sent in from subscribers, or interviewing other composers and conductors may be useful.

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