Tim
graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire in 1996 with a Batchelor of Music
degree. In 1997 he set up Redstone Music Publishing. Over the last few years
he has written two main musicals, Berlin (1994 rewritten 2001) and Rising
Sun (1997), had songs performed from both at venues around the UK including
the London Palladium and the Manchester Opera House and written 10 scores
for Educational Musicals (go to Educational Musicals) for 7-11 year old
children which have been sold to over 28 countries around the World. The
first two musicals can be found under the Musicals section of the website.
In 1999 Tim had some success in in Country music with a number 1 hit in the
US Independent Country charts called 'Do you like it like that' and a UK
Country Independent chart #4 with a song called 'Wash away the Lies' both
with the artist Tracey Shield.
Over the last couple of years Tim has worked extensively on his 'pop' song
catalogue collaborating with Midlands based writer/singer Steve Vent.
Tim has also worked for the BBC as Musical Director/Composer for the
Children's TV series 'Playdays'.
As an orchestrator/arranger Tim has worked for artists such as Dave Willetts
and Mark Rattray as well as being Musical Director for variety shows in the
West End. He has also musically directed theatre shows such as Assassins,
Children of Eden and A Slice of Saturday Night.
Tim has even performed in various guises, from cruise ship work to
performing in shows at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, although even he would
claim he's not a singer.
Oh, and by the way, the "J." in the middle of the name is there purely
because there was a Country songwriter based in Nashville and inducted into
the Nashville Hall of Fame in 1971 called Tim Spencer - He claims it's not
being pretentious!!!