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The English choral conductor, Tim Pratt, studied at Colchester Institute, trained as a musician specialising in choral music and composition.
Tim Pratt taught in a number of comprehensive schools across the south of England and Wales. After 35 years as a full-time education professional, including 14 years as a secondary school headteacher in Wales, he is now involved in publishing choral music. He has sung with a number of high-profile choirs including the Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir and has directed church choirs since the late 1970's. He was Director of Music of The Chapel Choir of The Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester (1987-1998), and became Director of Music at at St Mary's Priory Church, Abergavenny, Wales in June 2000.
Tim Pratt is also a composer, mainly of sacred choral music, and keeps the choir supplied with a range of new anthems to try every year. Major works include Song of Deliverence (1985), Requiem (1989), The Priory Service (2000), and Stabat Mater (2014). Has arranged Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater for SA solos, SATB choir and Organ (2007), Antonio Vivaldi's Stabat Mater for SA solos, SATB choir and Organ (2011), and Robert Schumann's Requiem Op. 148 for SATB solos, SATB choir and Organ (2014). He still regularly composes choral music for choirs with recent commissions coming from as far afield as the USA and Canada as well as Holland and the UK. In 2014 he was awarded the AWACM (Archbishop of Wales' Award for Church Music). He currently lives in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. |
