Tim Anderson

Tim Anderson is a British-German conductor based in London. After studying at New College, Oxford, Tim was invited by the late Gerard Mortier to work at the Teatro Real, Madrid in 2013. He now enjoys an active career working with many of Europe’s great opera houses and orchestras. In 2019, Tim was Assistant Conductor for Music Theatre Wales and The Royal Opera’s co-production of Gerald Barry’s The Intelligence Park.

While working in Madrid, Tim conducted performances for the education department and assisted in preparing many productions for the main stage. After leaving Madrid, he was trainee répétiteur at English National Opera and has since worked regularly at Glyndebourne, Northern Ireland Opera, Nevill Holt Opera (where he is currently Associate Conductor), as well as at Oper Stuttgart, Garsington Opera, and with Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO.

Tim has wide experience in contemporary opera, including recently conducting the 30th anniversary production of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek at the Arcola Theatre, London, in a production by co-librettist and original director, Jonathan Moore. Tim also recently made his debuts with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and at Snape Maltings.

Further contemporary opera credits include musical preparation for Gavin Higgins’s The Monstrous Child at the Royal Opera House with Jessica Cottis; assisting Nicholas Kok on the UK premiere of Silent Night at Opera North; musical preparation for the world premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Glyndebourne Festival with Vladimir Jurowski in 2017, and assisting Nicholas Carter on its revival at the 2018 Adelaide Festival with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; musical preparation for John Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary at English National Opera; Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face at Northern Ireland Opera and Nevill Holt Opera; and Zesses Seglias’s To the Lighthouse at the Bregenzer Festspiele.