Timothy Lines

Emerging Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter

Classical clarinetist. He studied at the Royal College of Music with Michael Collins (3). From 1999 to 2003 he was Joint Principal & Principal Eb clarinet of The London Symphony Orchestra and was also chairman of the orchestra during his last year there. In September 2004 he was appointed section leader clarinet of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a position he held until January 2006, when he left to focus on his freelance career. He now plays on original instruments with the English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He is also professor of clarinet at both the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music.