Tim Sutton is a composer and music director for musical theatre, choral music and opera. His most recent work as MD was Memphis the Musical, which ran for a year at the Shaftesbury Theatre. He is currently writing Victory, a new musical, with playwright Juliet Gilkes Romero.
Work for the National: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (MD), The Amen Corner (composer and MD)
Scores for theatre
The Devil's Advocate (Proper Job Theatre Company); Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Young Vic); The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Dreamfighter (Lichfield Festival); The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland); As You Like It (Wyndham's); As You Desire Me (Playhouse); Thought Latching To Thought... (The Place Prize 2006); Marat/Sade
Awards
Olivier nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Music - MD on Memphis the Musical
Stiles and Drewe Best Song Award 2013 - That Once-in-a-Lifetime Feeling
Stiles and Drewe Best Song Award 2011 (joint winner - I Am
Royal Philharmonic Society Award - Cycle Song (collaboration with poet Ian McMillan, for Cultural Olympiad, Scunthorpe)
Royal Philharmonic Society Award nomination - Unplugged: Winning the Clay (Eden Project)
British Composer Award nomination - The Seven Joys
Published November 2015