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Dr Tim Johnston

Part-Time Academic Staff

CREATIVE ARTS
Tim is a composer of soundtracks and concert music. His creative output explores Anglo-Welsh traditional music, folkloristics, narrative, and modality.

Biography

I am a classically trained composer and music producer, based in south Wales. I have composed and produced multiple albums of my music, including soundtracks for several films (feature-length and shorts), and have credits on features as a post-production audio editor.

My research interests are in the use of traditional music and culture in contemporary classical repertoire. I am also a pianist, cellist, guitarist, and singer.

Listen to my music on Spotify.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Intersecting Influences: Finding Compositional Unity Across Different Musical Spaces), Cardiff University, 2024
  • Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, Advance HE, 2022
  • MA Composition for Film and Television, (Dist.), University of Bristol, 2018
  • BMus (First Class Hons), Cardiff University, 2017

Teaching & Research

Teaching

Within my work and creative output as a composer, I am particularly interested in:

– The identity-forming process of compositional engagement with existing repertoire

– The interaction of Western art music with Anglo-Welsh folk music and culture

– Developing new methodological approaches to collaboration in music and visual media

– Music and narrative

– Creative studio techniques

At University of Gloucestershire, I am course leader for MD5361 Composing for Screen Media, for both the ‘Sound and Music Production’ and ‘Popular Music’ BA degrees, and module co-lead on MD7214 Music and Sound for Screen, Media and Games within the MSc ‘Sound and Music Production’ postgraduate programme.

https://www.glos.ac.uk/profile/tim-johnston/