Tim Horton had his musical education at Sevenoaks School and Jesus College Cambridge, where he was Organ Scholar. He gained his ARCO and FRCO diplomas, with top marks and prizes for both. He was Assistant Master of Music at Sheffield Cathedral and Director of Music at the School of S Mary and S Anne, Abbots Bromley, before moving to London to take up a busy professional career.

Tim’s work is varied. As Director of Chapel Music at the Guards Chapel in London he conducts the well-known professional choir in the regular services and for many extra events. He coordinated and conducted the music for the service of thanksgiving for Diana, Princess of Wales on 31st August 2007 at the Chapel, which received wide press attention and an international TV audience of millions. The choir of the Guards Chapel broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3 and has recorded twice for EMI with the Band of the Grenadier Guards. Tim has been Musical Director of the Croydon Bach Choir since 2001 and conducted them in much of the choral repertoire, including Bach B minor Mass, Mendelssohn Elijah, Handel Samson and Messiah and Mozart Requiem.

Tim also remains committed to music education, teaching part-time at a school in London and working as an examiner in music for Trinity Guildhall. He is also active as an accompanist and soloist in his own right, recently giving five solo live performances of Bach’s immense Passacaglia and fugue in C minor as the music for Roland Petit’s seminal ballet Le jeune homme et la mort, danced at Sadler’s Wells by Igor Zelensky and Darcey Bussell as part of her farewell season.