Timothy Parsons, countertenor and conductor, is active internationally as both soloist and ensemble singer. He has performed with the GRAMMY®-nominated Clarion Music Society and since 2014 has been a member of the GRAMMY®-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Timothy most recently served as Alto Lay Clerk with the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. A devoted performer of new music, Timothy premiered the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning Angel’s Bone with the Prototype Festival and 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winner p r i s m with LA Opera and the Prototype Festival. He has performed extensively with vocal ensemble Ekmeles, specializing in micro-tuning and extended vocal techniques.

Timothy has performed as a soloist with the Bach Society of Charleston, the Charlotte Master Chorale, The Saint Tikhon Choir, Music Worcester, the Stamford Symphony, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, and has toured internationally with the English Concert. He has toured with GRAMMY®-winning Apollo’s Fire in two productions of Monteverdi. Timothy has been hailed as a “most dazzling contributor… whose magnificently muscular singing… made one want to coin a new vocal category just for him—the heldencountertenor, ready to sing Wagnerian roles in his powerful falsetto.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

International appearances include the Montreal Bach Festival, The Festival Musica Sacra Quito, the Stavanger Kammermusikkfestival, St John’s Smith Square, and the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

From Trinity Wall Street’s Messiah, December 2022
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Andrew Megill, conductor