Tim Horton

Tim Horton is one of the leading chamber pianists of his generation. He is a founder member of both the Leonore Piano Trio and Ensemble 360 and has been a regular guest pianist with the Nash Ensemble.  In recent years he has also been gaining a reputation as a solo pianist. He presented a complete Beethoven sonata cycle at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield, for Music in the Round between 2011 and 2015, and subsequently presented a cycle of Schubert sonatas. He was invited to make his solo dèbut at Wigmore Hall in 2016 where he will be giving further solo recitals in the coming seasons.
Following two performances of Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle at  Symphony Hall, Birmingham and the Royal Festival Hall, London in 1995, at the recommendation of Alfred Brendel, Horton was asked to give concerts with the RLPO, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra.
With the Leonore Piano Trio, Horton has given concerts throughout the UK, Scandinavia, New Zealand and Europe. They have performed a cycle of the complete Beethoven Piano Trios at Kings Place, London and have repeated the cycle at various venues since then. They have produced five albums for Hyperion, the latest of which, the first disc in a complete Parry Piano Trios cycle, appeared in February 2019. They have also recorded the complete Piano Trios of David Matthews for Toccata Classics. Future plans include further cycles of the Beethoven Piano Trios and concerts at the Wigmore Hall and throughout the UK and Europe.
With Ensemble 360, a mixed group of strings, wind and piano that took up residency at the Crucible Studio in Sheffield in 2005, he has performed to great acclaim throughout the UK and abroad.
Horton has performed regularly at the Aldeburgh, Bath, Elverum, Plush, Presteigne, Midsummer Music and North Norfolk festivals. In 2018 he was invited to curate two weekends of concerts at the Plush Festival in Dorset. The repertoire included music from Gesualdo, through Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms, to Stockhausen, Kurtag, Boulez and Michael Berkeley performed by the Fieri Consort, The Heath Quartet, Sir András Schiff and many close colleagues from the world of chamber music.
Horton has performed with many leading chamber musicians including the Elias, Vertavo and Talich quartets, Paul Lewis, Imogen Cooper, Alasdair Beatson, Bjorg Lewis, Robin Ireland (with whom he has released two albums), Peter Cropper, Adrian Brendel and Rachel Roberts.
Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK for the quality and integrity of its playing, and also for its ability to communicate the music to a range of different audiences. Formed in 2005, eleven musicians of international standing came together to take up residency in Sheffield with Music in the Round, establishing a versatile group of five string players, five wind players and a pianist. They believe in concerts being informal, friendly and relaxed occasions, and perform ‘in the round’ wherever possible. Critical acclaim has greeted all the group’s albums to date: Mozart and Spohr (ASV Gold), Beethoven and Poulenc (Nimbus Alliance).