Timothy Perkins was born in 1960 and studied composition with Richard Arnell at Trinity College of Music London, and is currently working towards a Composition PhD at Birmingham Conservatoire with Joe Cutler and Howard Skempton.

He has written for the Northampton Symphony Orchestra, the Icarus ensemble, Decibel, The Newbury Symphony Orchestra, Wendlebury Winds and Ensemble Ox. percussionist Keith Fairbairn.

An active guitar based recording artist, Tim has enjoyed a ten year collaboration with writer Alan Moore, co-writing/producing five albums and participating in mixed media performances at a variety of venues such as The Garage in Islington, Red Lion square Holborn, and the Purcell room at London’s South bank centre.

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During the 90’s, he recorded, toured and performed with instrumental outfit, Finality Jack, releasing two albums “Glory be” and “peasant gourmet”

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Tim played Violin and Bouzouki, and composed for the band who toured and played festivals in Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the UK. The distinctly folk & Mediaeval undercurrent to the band is something that continues to pervade a certain part of the Perkisound machine to this day, and TP’s first official solo Album ---------- (coming soon!) bears the musical legacy of this period.

More recently in terms of performance, Tim has been involved with 18th. Century English Dance band “Boldwood”, contributing bouzouki and guitar to their “Feet don’t fail Me now” debut CD, and is active as an electric fiddle player in his own band, “The Marsh town Stompers”.

In the field of contemporary classical music, Tim has written for a number of ensembles, was commissioned by the Northampton Symphony Orchestra for their millennium concert at Northampton’s Derngate centre, in 2000 and provided music “Bending Glass” (Bassoon and strings) for a Palladio evening as part of the Hungerford Arts festival 2009.

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