Tim Walsh
Brass
Tim Walsh grew up in New Zealand. He first studied the science of wizardry* at the University of Otago, and subsequently that of tenor trombone at the New Zealand School of Music. He continued his music studies in Sydney, and has the pleasure of counting David Bremner, Matthew Allison, and Scott Kinmont among his many teachers.
Tim is an alumnus of New Zealand’s National Youth Orchestra, where he played bass trombone, and the NZ Youth Brass Band. In Australia, he worked in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s education department for several years, before focusing on teaching brass and occasionally conducting. Tim has performed professionally in orchestras, military bands, big bands, and horn sections in Australia and New Zealand.
Select career highlights include: performing at the dawn service at ANZAC cove, performing Gabrieli’s Sonata à 22, leading a St Patrick’s Day parade in Ireland, playing Brahms’ Symphony No.2 in Tokyo, and hearing a recording he was on appear on the playlist at a “Scottish” hamburger store in Berlin.
Tim would like to point out that the trombone, being the only other orchestral instrument expected to use the alto clef, is clearly first in the line of succession to the viola’s throne.
* At the time Tim graduated, the name for the Department of Chemistry translated in te reo Māori as ‘the house of the fruits and products of wizardry’.