Performance and touring, currently with own band TIM RICHARDS TRIO. Also current projects with SHIREEN FRANCIS (vocals) and DAVE BLACKMORE (bass clarinet). Compositions commissions accepted. Past com...
Performance and touring, currently with own band TIM RICHARDS TRIO. Also current projects with SHIREEN FRANCIS (vocals) and DAVE BLACKMORE (bass clarinet). Compositions commissions accepted. Past commissions include Suite for The Shed (Great Spirit 9-piece), Shamanism Suite (Gloucester Youth Jazz Orchestra), Tangletalk (Consortium5 recorder quintet), Timetrap (Tryptic trio - piano/cello/violin), piano pieces for Rockschool, ABRSM and Schott Music. Educational activities include teaching jazz piano classes at Morley College, Goldsmiths and The City Lit in London, and private one-to-one piano lessons from home. Workshops given for the ABRSM, EPTA, Jazz Umbrella, etc. Author and broadcaster on jazz - recent appearances on BBC Radio 3 include Jazz Library programmes on pianists Wynton Kelly and Hampton Hawes, with presenter Alyn Shipton. Publications include 4 acclaimed piano tutors with Schott, Exploring Jazz Piano winning the 2006 MIA award for Best Pop Publication.