Sound excerpts performed by Tim Hurd [RealOne format]
Timothy Hurd QSM studied composition with Krzysztof Penderecki and Jacob Druckman at Yale University, with further postgraduate study in Holland and Belgium. He received the Artist's Diploma in carillon performance from the Netherlands Carillon School in 1980, where he studied with Peter Bakker and Leen 't Hart. He did research in musicology at the Catholic University of Leuven and studied Flemish carillon music at the Royal Carillon School 'Jef Denyn' in Mechelen. In 1981, he was awarded the Prix d'Excellence by the Dutch government. After two years in Florida as Carillon Scholar at Bok Tower, then teaching at the Scandinavian Carillon School in Denmark, he became National Carillonist of New Zealand in October 1984, where he plays the National War Memorial Carillon, the third largest carillon in the world by total weight with 74 bells. He was awarded a Queen's Service Medal for his services to music in 1994. In 2001, he was appointed first Director of the National Carillon in Canberra, Australia.
Sound excerpts performed by Tim Hurd [RealOne format]