Timothy Garrard graduated in the summer of 2001 from King’s College, Cambridge where he read Music and was the recipient of the College’s Gollin Prize. He taught at Eltham College before taking up the post of Head of Academic Music at Trinity School, Croydon and Associate Director of Trinity Boys Choir. In 2011, Timothy was appointed Director of Music at Westminster School.

Timothy’s musical career began as a treble soloist at the Opéra Comique, Paris, the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the London Coliseum with English National Opera. As the senior choral scholar of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, he performed as a countertenor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, the Lincoln Center, New York, the Sydney Opera House and the Bermuda Festival.

As Associate Director of Trinity Boys Choir, Timothy worked on productions for the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Garsington Opera and English National Opera. He coached the Boys Choir for appearances at the Royal Variety Performance, Children in Need and the Pride of Britain Awards.

As Director of Music at Westminster, recent conducting engagements have included Bach Magnificat at St John’s, Smith Square, Bernstein Chichester Psalms, Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Britten Saint Nicolas, Fauré Requiem, Puccini Messa di Gloria and Rossini Petite messe solennelle at the Barbican, Handel Messiah with the London Mozart Players, Bach Lutheran Mass in G minor and Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen with the London Baroque Sinfonia, and directing the Queen’s Scholars of Westminster School during their singing of ‘Vivat Regina Elizabetha’ in Parry I was glad at a service in Westminster Abbey marking the 60th Anniversary of the Coronation in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II.