Tim Garland
Jazz
Tim Garland is a Grammy Award-winning British saxophonist, composer and band-leader, one of the few UK based jazz musicians to have made an impact in the United States. Also known for his innovative bass clarinet playing and for his prolific output as a composer, he sometimes blurs the boundaries between modern jazz and classical concert music.
As a performer, he has worked extensively internationally, with particular highlights being a long association with Bill Bruford and a seventeen year collaboration with Chick Corea. As a composer, he has fulfilled commissions from the LSO, the Northern Sinfonia, 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra and Westminster Abbey Choir, as well as countless small and large jazz-based ensembles. As a band-leader, he first achieved wide recognition with the jazz/folk crossover group Lammas, going on to further success with a number of groups under his own name, the Dean Street Underground Orchestra, Storms/Nocturnes, Acoustic Triangle and his award winning Lighthouse Project featuring Gwilym Simcock.
Tim has released over 25 albums and won a Grammy in 2009 for his part in creating The New Crystal Silence which celebrated Chick Corea and Gary Burton's famous partnership. He tours the UK this year with a new album "ONE". Tim was voted "Musician of the Year" by the 2006 All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group and has been Artist in Residence at Oriel College Oxford. He continues to hold an International Chair at RNCM, along with occasional coaching at the Royal Academy of Music.
