Tim Horton

Tim Horton is one of the UK’s leading pianists, equally at home in solo and chamber repertoire, and is regularly invited to perform at major festivals and series across the country.

Early in his career, and at the recommendation of the late Alfred Brendel who was indisposed, Tim stood in at short notice to perform 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. Further concerto performances followed with orchestras such as the RLPO, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra.

Tim gave his debut solo recital at Wigmore Hall in 2016, since which time he has appeared there regularly as both soloist and collaborative artist, and where he recently completed his Chopin Cycle.

Between 2011 and 2015 Tim presented a complete Beethoven Sonata cycle at Sheffield’s Crucible for Music in the Round, who asked him to return for a cycle of Schubert Sonatas in 2017-2019, and a Chopin cycle which he concluded in 2024. 2026 sees the fifth and sixth instalment of his Chopin Cycle at Wigmore Hall, and a new Beethoven cycle for Music in the Round at the Crucible. Early in 2025 he marked the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death by undertaking a two-piano project with Ivana Gavrić. The duo’s most recent recital, at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 as part of their programme ‘Classical Live’.

Alongside his solo work Tim maintains a busy schedule with the Leonore Piano Trio and Ensemble 360, and is a founding member of both groups. As an extension of their work together in Ensemble 360, Tim co-founded Trio Meister Raro with violist Rachel Roberts and clarinettist Robert Plane.

Tim’s collaborators include many of today’s most respected chamber musicians, ensembles and composers, including the Elias, Vertavo, Heath and Talich Quartets, Paul Lewis, Imogen Cooper, Alasdair Beatson, Bjorg Lewis, Robin Ireland (with whom he has released two discs), Claire Booth, Peter Cropper and Adrian Brendel. He is regularly broadcast by BBC Radio 3.