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| Nosferatu World premiere date rescheduled for December 10 July 20, 2009  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 January, 2010. |
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| Sherlock Jr. at the Chicago Symphony July 15, 2009  On February 5th, Timothy Brock’s score to SHERLOCK JR will be performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Richard Kaufman. Brock made his conducting debut with the orchestra in 2009 with MODERN TIMES, and plans are being made for his return appearance in 2010. |
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| Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra commissions Keaton’s The Cameraman for 2010 July 10, 2009  LACO, after commissioning SHERLOCK JR in 2008, has asked Brock to write for them a new score to one of Buster Keaton’s last silent features, THE CAMERAMAN (1928). This marks the third overall work commissioned by LACO, starting with Harold Lloyd’s ASK FATHER in 2006. Timothy Brock has made 11 appearances with LACO in as many years, and once again looks forward to writing for this most famous and widely recorded chamber orchestra in America. |
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| World Premiere of 2 new Chaplin Films July 3, 2009  The premiere of SUNNYSIDE (1919), and A DAY’S PLEASURE (1919) took place at the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, Italy during the Cinema Ritrovato 2009. The music, written by Chaplin, was arranged and adopted Brock for small 1920’s dance orchestra modeled on earlier Chaplin scores. These newly restored (by the l’immagine Ritrovato) films had not been seen on the big screen for over 40 years, and were well received by the 3,000-plus in attendance. |
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| World Premiere of Feu Mathias Pascal (1926) June 29, 2009  This masterpiece of French cinema received it’s orchestral premiere at the Cinema Ritrovato 2009 to a packed house at the Teatro Comunale with the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Commissioned by the Cinémathèque Française and the Cineteca di Bologna, this huge collaborative project was received with overwhelming enthusiasm by all attendees and more performances are in the works for 2009/2010. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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