Photo: Anthony Mooney
ABOUT
Tim Crooks is a British conductor, arranger and
orchestrator.
Tim Crooks has written and performed live and studio music spanning genres from Classical to Pop, House, EDM, Disco, Gospel and more, working with international artists such as Kathy Sledge, Alison Limerick, Lisa Stansfield, Alex James and Aziz Ibrahim.
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Tim Crooks has conducted across the globe, from Sydney Opera House to Dubai Opera, the Royal Albert Hall and the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury; his projects include Haçienda Classical, and The Sound of Joy Division Orchestrated, featuring Peter Hook with Manchester Camerata.
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Originally a violinist Tim Crooks performed at the BBC Proms, Cheltenham Festivals, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music. He also works in the studio with partners such as Ameritz Music and Up North Session Orchestra as an arranger and MD.
Tim Crooks has worked as orchestrator and/or conductor with orchestras including Royal Northern Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, The Philharmonia, RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Kaleidoscope Orchestra.
‘…Manchester Camerata, probably Britain’s most adventurous orchestra, weaned away from its Beethoven by conductor Tim Crooks’s rambunctiously stylish transformations of Blue Monday, Voodoo Ray and other Eighties and Nineties club-thumpers’
Richard Morrison, The Times -
"He has accomplished an amazing feat. He has a tremendous gift. I was in awe."
- Peter Hook. The Haçienda