Classical

Having played at venues including Wigmore Hall, St. John's Smiths Square, the V&A Museum and on the Goodwood estate in West Sussex, Tim is an experienced performer of solo, duo, and chamber repertoire. 

Tim has recently recorded his debut solo album with Luminate Records, featuring a wide range of piano transcriptions.  The album is due for release on CD and multiple streaming platforms in Spring 2025.

Having started his music education at the age of four, Tim has always had passion for great classical music, and especially the piano, having also studied the Clarinet and Recorder to beyond diploma standard.  Tim loves the vast diversity of repertoire which the piano offers and enjoys playing contrasting repertoire in performance, ranging from early Baroque music right up to jazz and modern music, as well as regularly performing his own compositions and arrangements. 

Recent Solo Concert Repertoire Includes:

• Nocturnes Nos 4 & 5 by Gabriel Faure

• Ballade Op.19 by Gabriel Faure

• The Hourglass & A Fairy Tale Suite by Frank Bridge

• Caprice No.2 Op.33 & Rondo Capriccioso Op.14 by Felix Mendelssohn

• Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel

• The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas, transcribed by Tim Rumsey

• Orb & Sceptre, Coronation March 1953, by William Walton, transcribed by Tim Rumsey

• 3 transcriptions by Percy Grainger; Apres un reve and Nell by Gabriel Faure, and Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part by John Dowland 

Repertoire List: Solo

• Sonata No.18  in D Major K.576 by W.A. Mozart

• Sonata Op.31 No.3 in Eb Major by Ludwig van Beethoven

• Sonata in C Minor D.958 by Franz Schubert

• Impromptus (Op.29 in Ab, Op.36 in F#, Op.51 in Gb) by Frederic Chopin

• Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este, No.4 from Années de pèlerinage, troisième année by Franz Liszt

• Drei Interezzi Op.117 by Johannes Brahms

• Estampes L.100, by Claude Debussy 

• Une Barque sur l'Ocean, No.3 from Miroirs by Maurice Ravel

• Sarnia: An Island Sequence by John Ireland

• Liza, No.1 from Seven Virtuoso Etudes by Earl Wild/George Gershwin

• En avril a Paris by Charles Trenet/Alexis Weissenberg

• Grand Fantasy on George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess by Earl Wild

• Suite from Violin Partita in E Major by J.S. Bach, by Sergei Rachmaninoff

• Ballade (L.70), Nocturne (L.82), & Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne L.69) by Claude Debussy

Repertoire List: Concertos

• Piano Concerto No.4 in G Major Op.54 by Ludwig van Beethoven

• Piano Concerto No.5 in F Major 'Egyptian' Op.103 by Camille Saint-Saens

• Piano Concerto No.17 in G Major K.453 by W.A. Mozart

• Piano Concerto in Eb Major by John Ireland

Duo/trio repertoire has included the following:

• Three Romances for Violin and Piano Op.22 by Clara Schumann

• Violin Sonata No.2 by Maurice Ravel

• Sonate Posthume for Violin and Piano by Maurice Ravel

• Clarinet Sonata by Arnold Bax

• Four Characteristic Pieces for Clarinet & Piano by William Hurlstone

• Suite for Trio by Alexander Arutiunian

• Suite for Violin, Clarinet & Piano by Darius Milhaud

• Trio for Violin, Clarinet & Piano by Aram Khachaturian

• A Soldier's Tale Suite for Trio by Igor Stravinsky

• An American in Paris by George Gershwin, arranged for trio by Tim Rumsey

• 'Decorations' for Trio, by Tim Rumsey

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