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Timothy Reynish (born Axbridge, 1938) is a conductor of wind bands and wind ensembles, long associated with the Royal Northern College of Music.

Reynish went to school at St Edmund's School in Canterbury. He studied horn with Aubrey Brain and Frank Probyn and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra for six years. He studied music at Cambridge with Raymond Leppard and Sir David Willcocks. Beginning his career as a teacher at Minehead Grammar School (1961-1965), Reynish was appointed horn co-principal of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1969. He also played principal horn with the Northern Sinfonia and Sadler's Wells Opera and founded the Birmingham Sinfonietta from members of the CBSO. From 1960 until 1975 he was lecturer in music at Bromsgrove College of Further Education until 1975.

He joined the Royal Northern College of Music in 1975 as tutor, and in 1977 succeeded Philip Jones as head of the School of Wind & Percussion, a position from which he retired in 2001. During that time he developed the wind orchestra and ensemble of the RNCM, commissioning new works from composers including Richard Rodney Bennett, John Casken, Adam Gorb, Kenneth Hesketh, Thea Musgrave and Aulis Sallinen. Since his retirement, Reynish has continued to be active as a lecturer and conductor, particularly in the UK and the USA.

Reynish has been editor of the Novello Wind Band & Ensemble series and an editor with Maecenas Music. He contributed the chapter on the wind music of Percy Grainger to The New Percy Grainger Companion, published by Boydell & Brewer. He self-published Making it Better: Creating a Wind Repertoire in the UK in 2022.

Reynish was awarded an MBE for services to music in 2019.

References

1. 'Timothy Reynish', Oxford Reference
2. Tim Reynish, former St Edmund’s pupil
3. 'MBE for former Minehead music maestro', West Somerset Free Press, 10 June 2019
4. Timothy Reynish biography, Chandos Records
5. Penelope Thwaites, ed. The New Percy Grainger Companion (2016)
6. Timothy Reynish. Making it Better at MusicWeb International
7. 'Tim Reynish awarded MBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours', Royal Northern College of Music

External links

• Timothy Reynish Masterclass, Queensland, 2010

• 1938 births
• Living people
• English classical horn players
• British conductors
• Members of the Order of the British Empire
• 20th-century British classical musicians
• 21st-century British classical musicians
• Players of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
• Alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music