BLOOD REPLICA for solo piano to be premiered at WORKING TITLE No. 6

Timothy McCormack (1984) writes haptic, viscous music which makes audible the tactile, physical relationship between a performer and their instrument. Sometimes ecstatic, sometimes hermetic, their music threads an intimacy between tone and noise to create strangely affecting sonic ecologies which alter one’s perception of time. They also engage with contemporary queer aesthetics: hæmal ancestries, incurable disease and its histories, mourning, listening, and the erotics of form. 

They have been commissioned by ensembles such as: Ensemblekollektiv Berlin, Klangforum Wien, the JACK Quartet, the Schallfeld Ensemble, musikFabrik, the ELISION Ensemble, Curious Chamber Players, MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik, the [Switch~ Ensemble], Line Upon Line Percussion, and organizations or festivals such as: Eclat, the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, the impuls Festival, ON – Neue Musik Köln. Their music has also been performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Nikel, Collegium Novum Zürich, ensemble mosaik, Ensemble Dal Niente, the Talea Ensemble, and wasteLAnd; and programmed on the Wien Modern, Tectonics, Klangspuren, Darmstadt, Huddersfield, Maerzmusik, Ultraschall, and TRANSIT festivals. 

McCormack’s music can be heard on the record labels Kairos, Another Timbre, and Huddersfield Contemporary Records. Their recent disc on Another Timbre was described as “a spiritual event” in the New Yorker by Alex Ross, who also selected it as one of the best classical music releases of 2025. 

McCormack is the recipient of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Composers’ Prize (2018). They won the Impuls International Composition Competition (2019) which resulted in a new work for Vienna’s Klangforum Wien. They were also awarded the George Arthur Knight Prize (2014) for their piece you actually are evaporating, as well as the John Green Fellowship (2017) for their “demonstrated talent and promise as a composer,” both from Harvard University.

McCormack currently teaches at University of California San Diego (UCSD), where they are an Assistant Professor of Composition. Prior to that, they taught at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. They received their PhD from Harvard University (2019), where they studied with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. They also studied at the University of Huddersfield with Aaron Cassidy and Liza Lim, as well as at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Lewis Nielson and Randolph Coleman. They have participated in the Schloss Solitude Sommerakademie (2009) and the Tzlil Meudcan Summer Courses (2012). In addition to music, McCormack has also studied contemporary dance with Jill Johnson and has worked in masterclass or choreographic settings with William Forsythe, John Jasperse, Christopher Roman and Riley Watts.