About
Timothy Peters BMus (Hons) is a tenor, conductor and composer. In both of these roles his main goal is to keep music accessible, exciting and original. He does this through frequent collaboration with relevant artists and constant research into direct and indirect phenomena that will enhance a musical experience.
Singing
Timothy sings on a freelance basis around the UK for recordings and concerts. Since returning to Sheffield in 2025, he is enjoying a break from regular liturgical singing, but greatly enjoyed his tenancy at the chapels royal of HM Tower of London. Now he sings mostly as a soloist, a member of Kantos Chamber Choir and as a session singer for Sony Masterworks.
Solos with chorus and orchestra includes, but is not limited to:
Featuring on BBC Radio 4 with University of Sheffield Broadway Orchestra; Brockham Choral and British Sinfonietta; Kantos Chamber Choir and the Northern Ballet Sinfonia Orchestra; Coro Spezzato and London Concert Orchestra; Chester Festival Chorus and Ensemble Deva; John Butt MBE and the San Francisco Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Exon Singers; performances as a recitalist.
Concert solo repertoire includes but is not limited to:
Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Magnificat; Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb; Handel's Messiah; Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo and Nelson Mass; Kodaly's Missa Brevis; Maunder's Olivet to Calvary; Mendelssohn's Elijah; Mozart's Coronation Mass and Vespers; Orff's Carmina Burana; Pergolesi's Magnificat; Roth’s A Time to Dance; Schubert's Mass in G Major; Stainer's The Crucifixion; Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs and Serenade to Music
Conducting
Timothy's principal aim is to transform music into the gravity that pulls a community together. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of FaceNoise Choral Foundation, which currently comprises of two choirs, Pop Chorus and Singers. Each of these run on unique models aimed at catching those who have fallen through the net of our current national singing culture.
In January 2025, Timothy started as Music Director of the Intermediate Choir and Assistant Music Director of the Senior Choir at Barnsley Youth Choir. In this role he leads nearly 300 young singers each week.
Before his move back up north, Timothy was the Music Director of Horsham Chamber Choir (Jan 2023 - Dec 2024) and Surrey's LGBTQIA+ Choir, Rainbow Choir (2021-2024). In 2022 he was a Fellow of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. An ongoing commitment sees Timothy as Artistic Director of Seeds for Development's project "Northern Uganda SINGS!" where he leads singing workshops as a way to bring disparate farming communities together, using the opportunity to discuss matters of health and education.
Composing, Arranging and Education
In demand as an arranger, Timothy has written over 30 arrangements for various choirs since 2020. Through all this work, he has found his compositional voice too, and is greatly enjoying writing original music again. Horsham Chamber Choir performed a lot of his most recent music: Sonnet 73, Bluebird Soundscape, Minor Arcana, In the Bleak Midwinter and Away in a Manger.
Timothy uses his broad range of musical experiences to approach music education from as many different angles as he finds accessible to his audience. Whilst working at City of London Freemen's School, Timothy discovered that there was a plethora of young people who were passionate about music but did not want to learn a traditional instrument. It was then that he started to teach DJ'ing and Music Production as a peripatetic music teacher, alongside his work as a singing teacher.
Timmy Dillow is the pen name Timothy uses to release music and work as a music producer and DJ.
