Timothy A. Sexton
- Music Department
- Composer
As a freelance composer, conductor, arranger, singer, writer,
adjudicator and broadcaster, Timothy Sexton is one of the most
prominent musicians in South Australia. Timothy has composed more than
200 works, ranging from opera through children's theatre to choral
works and film music, and has worked with most of SA's leading
performing arts companies.
Major works include the youth opera Escape of the Chrysalids, the musicals Unity Blues and Pete McGynty and the Dreamtime, music for Patch Theatre Company's productions of Mr. McGee and the Biting Flea and Who Sank The Boat, the choral works Whispering Winds, A Children's Century, Newcastle Coal Cantata, A Coming of Age and The Hole in the Sky. He has also completed more than 300 orchestral arrangements. His most recent compositional venture is the original orchestral score for the feature film The Marriage of Figaro, produced in South Australia.
He has sung in more than 30 productions for the State Opera of South Australia, most recently as José Castro in Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West. Conducting credits for that company include Don Pasquale, The Mikado, Riders to the Sea, Mavra, Treemonisha, Mahagonny Songspiel, The Turn of the Screw, Philip Glass's Akhnaten and Einstein on the beach, Sweeney Todd, Elena Kats-Chernin's Undertow (with which he toured Hungary and Finland in August 2005), The Station, Bastien and Bastienne, La Voix Humaine, Little Women and the critically acclaimed production of Philip Glass's Satyagraha with the Adelaide Vocal Project and Leigh Warren and Dancers. Timothy conducted Ingkata for the 2008 Adelaide Festival of Arts and assisted on the Australian premiere of Golijov's Ainadamar. Most recently he conducted the 8th Opera in the Paddock - a major regional operatic event in NSW.
He was Associate Chorus Master for Wagner's Gotterdammerung for the 2003 Perth Festival and Chorus Master and a Rehearsal Conductor for the 2004 Ring Cycle staged in Adelaide. Orchestral conducting credits include multiple performances with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, The Queensland Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia.
In late 2001 Timothy founded the Adelaide Art Orchestra and with them has performed with such Australian music luminaries as Glenn Shorrock, Anthony Warlow, Judi Connelli, David Hobson, Rob Guest, David Campbell, Marina Prior, Julie Anthony, Andy Seymour, Tim Campbell, Christine Anu and Rachael Beck. He is a two-time recipient of the Henry Krips Memorial Conducting Scholarship and in 2003 was awarded a Centenary Medal for Services to Music. In 2008, Timothy was awarded a prestigious Ruby Award for Sustained Contribution to the Arts by an individual. He is a regular radio broadcaster on ABC Classic FM (national classical station) and every Tuesday fortnight you can hear his program Tunes with Tim on local radio ABC 891 with Carole Whitelock.
Major works include the youth opera Escape of the Chrysalids, the musicals Unity Blues and Pete McGynty and the Dreamtime, music for Patch Theatre Company's productions of Mr. McGee and the Biting Flea and Who Sank The Boat, the choral works Whispering Winds, A Children's Century, Newcastle Coal Cantata, A Coming of Age and The Hole in the Sky. He has also completed more than 300 orchestral arrangements. His most recent compositional venture is the original orchestral score for the feature film The Marriage of Figaro, produced in South Australia.
He has sung in more than 30 productions for the State Opera of South Australia, most recently as José Castro in Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West. Conducting credits for that company include Don Pasquale, The Mikado, Riders to the Sea, Mavra, Treemonisha, Mahagonny Songspiel, The Turn of the Screw, Philip Glass's Akhnaten and Einstein on the beach, Sweeney Todd, Elena Kats-Chernin's Undertow (with which he toured Hungary and Finland in August 2005), The Station, Bastien and Bastienne, La Voix Humaine, Little Women and the critically acclaimed production of Philip Glass's Satyagraha with the Adelaide Vocal Project and Leigh Warren and Dancers. Timothy conducted Ingkata for the 2008 Adelaide Festival of Arts and assisted on the Australian premiere of Golijov's Ainadamar. Most recently he conducted the 8th Opera in the Paddock - a major regional operatic event in NSW.
He was Associate Chorus Master for Wagner's Gotterdammerung for the 2003 Perth Festival and Chorus Master and a Rehearsal Conductor for the 2004 Ring Cycle staged in Adelaide. Orchestral conducting credits include multiple performances with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, The Queensland Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia.
In late 2001 Timothy founded the Adelaide Art Orchestra and with them has performed with such Australian music luminaries as Glenn Shorrock, Anthony Warlow, Judi Connelli, David Hobson, Rob Guest, David Campbell, Marina Prior, Julie Anthony, Andy Seymour, Tim Campbell, Christine Anu and Rachael Beck. He is a two-time recipient of the Henry Krips Memorial Conducting Scholarship and in 2003 was awarded a Centenary Medal for Services to Music. In 2008, Timothy was awarded a prestigious Ruby Award for Sustained Contribution to the Arts by an individual. He is a regular radio broadcaster on ABC Classic FM (national classical station) and every Tuesday fortnight you can hear his program Tunes with Tim on local radio ABC 891 with Carole Whitelock.