Conductor Timothy Redmond has had an unusually strong career as a freelancer, establishing relationships with a variety of orchestras and opera houses across the UK and beyond. He has been especially associated with the music of composer Thomas Adès. Redmond was born in 1971 in Ashbourne, in the Derbyshire region. His first love was the oboe, which he studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, but then he switched to conducting and won a junior fellowship in that field at the RNCM, running from 1994 to 1996. Redmond rounded out his conducting training at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and in master classes with the likes of Ilya Musin, Pierre Boulez, and Yan Pascal Tortelier. He began his career as an assistant to A-list conductors: Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, and Elgar Howarth. As visiting conductorships presented themselves, he began to pursue them rather than aiming for a full-time music directorship. He has appeared across Britain with the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and four of the orchestras maintained by the BBC. Abroad he has appeared with the St. Louis Symphony, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, among others. In 2007, he recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on the EMI label. In 2019, with the BBC Philharmonic, he released the album The Orchestral Music of Jonathan Dove on the Orchid Classics label. Redmond has had a high-profile association with the music of Adès, whom he assisted on the world premiere of the opera The Tempest at the Royal Opera House in 2004. Four years later he conducted the Russian premiere of Adès' Powder Her Face at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. His only principal conductorship thus far has been with the Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra, a nonprofessional group. The orchestra, Redmond felt, offered the chance to do innovative programming. "We just did an extraordinary programme of Adès, Adams and Ives. Well, I’m sorry, there would be very few opportunities to programme such a concert in a more commercial world," he was quoted as saying on the website of the Winston-Salem Symphony. In the 2018-2019 season he appeared with that orchestra as one of five candidates for its principal conductorship. Since 2013, Redmond has taught conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He has also taught conducting at the Ingenium Academy, a summer music school for students ages 14-18 from around the world. ~ James Manheim