Timothy W. Duncan is a multi-faceted composer of New Music.
He also composes jazz, transformative music and computer music.
He was born in 1952 in Knoxville, TN. He studied piano,
violin and voice before entering college. He completed a Bachelor
of Music degree in Voice at the University of Tenessee, Knoxville.
His major professor and voice teacher was Edward Zambara. As a
member of the UT Opera Theater he recreated the roles of Dulcamara
in
L'Elisir d'Amore, the Judge in Gilbert and Sullivan's
Trial by
Jury, and Don Basilio in
Il Barbiere di Sivigla.
During his study at UT he was also active as a composer and
conductor. He studied composition with Allen Johnson and was
introduced to electronic music by Kenneth Jacobs. From 1974 - 1983 he
was a Music Director for the Clarence Brown Theater, a LORT-3
regional theater operated by UT's Department of Theater.
He composed, conducted and/or produced music for 13 productions, including
Hamlet,
Twelfth Night,
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Moliere's
The Imaginary Invalid,
The Mikado, and
Everyman.
He also conducted productions of Paul Hindemith's
Hin und Zuruck
and Gregory Kosteck's one act opera
Maurya for the UT Opera Theater.
Mr. Duncan next completed a Master of Music in Composition at the
University of Memphis, where he studied with Don Freund. There he
was awarded the Johannes Smit Prize in Composition. Subsequently,
he went on to Cincinnati, OH, where he studied at the College-Conservatory
of Music of the University of Cincinnati with Jonathan
D. Kramer. He completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Composition.
Other study includes computer music with Charles Dodge at Brooklyn
College, vocal improvisation with David Moss at the Atlantic Center
for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL, jazz improvisation and
arranging with trumpeter Ray Brown at Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA,
and Tibetan ritual chant with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche at the Vajrayana
Foundation, in Watsonville, CA.
Mr. Duncan has been active with a number of composing projects. In particular
he had major collaborative projects with the Russell W. Davis Planetarium,
the Modern Dance Collective and the New Stage Theatre, all of Jackson, Mississippi.
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