Timothy Brock - Latest News

New Recording of Mudhoney
November 26, 2008

A new recording of Brock’s second opera, MUDHONEY (1997), is being made by K Records (USA) with the Washington Chamber Orchestra and the composer at the helm. It is scheduled for release in 2009.

CD release of Modern Times
November 1, 2008

Targeted for 2009, we expect the release of the complete score to MODERN TIMES on the classical music label cpo. On this recording Brock conducts the Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR which represents the first complete recording ever made of Chaplin’s most intricate and dynamic score.

Chicago Symphony, March 2009
October 6, 2008

In March, 2009, Timothy Brock makes his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in performance of his restoration of Chaplin’s MODERN TIMES. This marks the Chicago Symphony’s premiere of Chaplin’s most complex and innovative score at Symphony Hall.

Nosferatu scheduled for premiere
at Cinema Ritrovato 2009
September 29, 2008

With the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Timothy Brock will premiere his long awaited score to F.W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU. Commissioned by the Cineteca di Bologna, in co-operation with the F.W. Murnau Stiftung in Wiesbaden, Mr. Brock has freely adapted the 1826 four-act opera, DER VAMPYR, by the eminent German composer Heinrich Marschner (1795-1861), to create a compelling dramatic score to the Murnau classic. The score and parts will be available for performance in August, 2009.

Cinema Avant Garde
July 7, 2008

Also at the Cinema Ritrovato festival, a concert was given devoted to an evening of Cinema Avant Garde. For this closing event at the Piazza Maggiore these scores had either been rarely, or otherwise never before performed with live orchestra. This amazing night included Rene Clair’s ENTR’ACTE (music of Eric Satie), Andre’ Calmettes’ L’ASSASSINAT du DUC DE GUISE (music of Camille Saint-Säens), and the wildly difficult LE BALLET MECANIQUE by Fernand Leger (music of George Antheil). The concert was met with a very enthusiastic response from the thousands that were there for this once-in-a –great-while experience.

World Premiere
of New Hitchcock score
July 3, 2008

The world premiere of Neil Brand’s monumental new score to Alfred Hitchcock’s last silent-film masterpiece, BLACKMAIL (1929), was presented on July 1st, 2008, to an audience estimated at 5,000 people in the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, Italy during the annual Cinema Ritrovato festival. Orchestrated and conducted by Brock, the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna gave an outstanding performance not soon to be forgotten.

Tour with Orchestra
Regionale della Toscana
June 2, 2008

In June, 2008, Mr. Brock has concluded a very critically successful tour with the Orchestra Regionale della Toscana (ORT) and pianist Freddy Kempf in a series of concerts featuring the music of Grieg and Gershwin, including the original 1924 manuscript version of Rhapsody in Blue.