Timothy Salter studied at
St John's College, Cambridge, where he won the
John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship in sacred music. His piano teachers included
York Bowen and
Lamar Crowson. He has composed chamber and orchestral music, choral music and songs. He set up Usk Recordings in 1995 and is the musical director of the Ionian Singers. His compositions include a Sinfonietta (1981) and a Symphony (1981), the saxophone concerto
Chameleon (2008), and much chamber music, including three string quartets (1980, 1983, 2010), the Clarinet Quintet (2009), a Piano Quartet (2006), a Piano Quintet (1990), a Piano Trio (1987) and two piano sonatas (1961, 1989). Vocal works include the song cycles
Four Hopkins Songs (1968),
After the Sun (1988) and
Life (1988). He is co-author with
Edward Lowbury and Alison Young of
Thomas Campion, Poet, Composer, Physician. For many years he taught composition and performance studies at the
Royal College of Music, where he designed collaborative composer/performer courses and in conjunction with
Edwin Roxburgh conducted the Twentieth Century Ensemble. He was awarded the Fellowship of the
Royal College of Music in 2004 for services to music. ==References==