about

ABOUT

The music of Tim Mauthe has been featured in performances in North America, Europe, and Australia. His Three Movements for Solo Violin was favorably reviewed by the August 2011 issue of The Strad Magazine at its London Premier. With this piece, Tim has a unique distinction of winning a solo competition, the 2008 Prix Del Fosse at the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival, performing his own work. He was awarded first prize in the 2012 Musica Domani International Composition Competition for Within Memory for cello and piano. In 2009, he won the soundSCAPE Composition Prize for Breezes and Rogue Winds for guitar duo. In May 2014, Within Memory was featured on the final concert of the 2014 Andrea Clearfield Salon Series in Philadelphia, performed by Michal Schmidt and David Hughes. Tim has also been performed by the Blue Streak Ensemble, Kardia String Quartet, Kandinsky Trio, Ars Futura, faculty from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Virginia Commonwealth University, the College of William and Mary, and members of the Cleveland Orchestra and Richmond Symphony Orchestra. The premiere of Tim's orchestral work, As to Efflorescence, by the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra was broadcast on Cleveland's Classical 104.9 WCLV, Cleveland Ovations program. The work was recently designated Runner-up for the 2019 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute.

Recently, Tim has been commissioned by the Aeolus Quartet. Festival Mozaic commissioned a chamber work from Tim for their 50th anniversary season in 2020. Tim has been commissioned by the Penn State Behrend School of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2017, the Cavani String Quartet in 2014 and the Kandinsky Trio in celebration of their 25th anniversary in 2012. The 2009 soundSCAPE Composition Prize resulted in a commission from the soundSCAPE Faculty Ensemble: Fragments of a Time and Place. It was premiered in Maccagno, Italy by Tony Arnold, Tom Rosenkranz, Aiyun Huang, and Beth Schneider. Other commissions include incidental music for the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival's production of Antony and Cleopatra and the Virginia Tech Department of Theatre's production of Gao Xingjian’s The Other Shore.

EDUCATION

Tim earned his DMA and MM in composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Keith Fitch and Margaret Brouwer. Tim studied viola with Kirsten Docter and chamber music with Peter Salaff and the Cavani Quartet. Tim earned his BA in composition and sound engineering from Virginia Tech studying with Kent Holliday and Patrick Simpson. At Virginia Tech, Tim studied violin with Jim Glazebrook and chamber music with Alan Weinstein.

A FAR CRY - Operations Manager, Tour Manager, Librarian

In 2019, Tim joined the staff of A Far Cry, the Boston-based 2-time Grammy nominated chamber orchestra, as their Operations Manager, Tour Manager, and Librarian. In these roles, Tim is responsible for producing A Far Cry's dynamic concert season in Boston as well as regional New England and national touring engagements.

TEACHING

A perpetual student, Tim is also a dedicated teacher. He was a Visiting Instructor of Theory and Composition at the College of William and Mary and guest lecturer at Virginia Tech in 2012-13. In Williamsburg, he also coached chamber music for the chamber program of the Williamsburg Youth Symphony Orchestra. Prior to this appointment, Tim taught theory and composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western Reserve University, and in the Preparatory Department at CIM.  From 2015-2019 Tim was the Associate Director of the New York Youth Symphony Composition Program. From 2016-2019, Tim was a theory and ear training faculty for the Music Advancement Program at The Juilliard School. As part of The Juilliard School's 2018 Beethoven-a-thon at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Tim presented on a comparative study of Beethoven's manuscript of Op. 18 No. 2 (part of the NYPL collection) and Michaelangelo's sketches for the Sistine Chapel ceiling on the way their sketches reveal certain priorities in their creative processes.

JUILLIARD CHAMBER MUSIC MANAGER

From 2015-2019, Tim served as the Chamber Music Manager for The Juilliard School. In this position, he managed around 100 chamber groups and produced 60 concerts each semester on the Lincoln Center campus and with many venues and institutions in Manhattan. He produced Juilliard’s ChamberFest – a two week winter chamber music intensive consisting of student-initiated projects in a Summer festival environment that culminates in eight concerts in Juilliard’s Paul Hall, Peter Jay Sharp Theater, and Alice Tully Hall. He also produced the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar – an early Summer festival for pre-professional string quartets to work closely with the Juilliard String Quartet.

AXIOM

From 2016-2019, Tim became the manager for Juilliard’s AXIOM Ensemble, led by Jeffrey Milarsky, producing between three to five contemporary music concerts each year. The 2016 season featured programs dedicated entirely to the music of Kaija Saariaho and Steve Reich (in celebration of his 80th birthday), a dedicatory performance to Pierre Boulez in Carnegie Hall’s Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall conducted by Daniel Barenboim, and a Rolex-sponsored collaboration with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kaija Saariaho, and Vasco Mendonça. The 2017 AXIOM season dedicated two programs solely to the music of Jacob Druckman and Luciano Berio with the third program being a performance of Hans Abrahamsen’s, Schnee. The 2018 AXIOM season features presentations with the New York Philharmonic in conjunction with their Art of Andriessen Festival as well as a concert featuring the works of John Corigliano and Nico Muhly in conjunction with Muhly's Metropolitan Opera premiere, Marnie. The third program of the 2018 season featured works by Xenakis, Shaw, and Reich's Tehillim.

SUMMER

Tim's summer affiliations have included the CIM Young Composers Program and The Perlman Music Program. In 2012, Tim redesigned the curriculum for YCP, emphasizing a more hands-on approach to composition in working with the resident ensemble, repertoire and creativity studies, and unique composition projects such as partnering with the University Circle Church of the Covenant for a tutorial and reading of new carillon pieces composed by YCP students. During YCP he taught lessons and gave lectures on creativity and aesthetics. Since 2011, he worked as a Fellow for The Perlman Music Program’s Summer Music School, Sarasota Winter Residency, PMP in Israel residency in Tel Aviv, and Stanford Residency. Beginning in 2013, Dr. Mauthe developed and implemented music theory classes in conjunction with the chamber music curriculum at the PMP Summer Music School.

MORE INFORMATION

Please email Tim at timothymauthe@gmail.com for commissioning a work or concert production-related inquiries.