Office: CPMC 353
timccormack@ucsd.edu
Timothy (Ti) McCormack writes haptic, viscous music which makes audible the tactile, physical relationship between a performer and their instrument. Sometimes ecstatic, sometimes hermetic, their music threads an intimacy between tone and noise to create strangely affecting sonic ecologies which alter one’s perception of time. They also engage with contemporary queer aesthetics: hæmal ancestries, incurable disease and its histories, mourning, listening, and the erotics of form.
McCormack is the recipient of the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Composers’ Prize (2018). They won the Impuls International Composition Competition (2019) which resulted in a new work for Klangforum Wien. They were also awarded the George Arthur Knight Prize (2014) for their piece you actually are evaporating, as well as the John Green Fellowship (2017) for their “demonstrated talent and promise as a composer,” both from Harvard University.
McCormack’s music has been commissioned by ensembles such as Ensemblekollektiv Berlin, Klangforum Wien, the JACK Quartet, the Schallfeld Ensemble, Musikfabrik, the ELISION Ensemble, Curious Chamber Players, MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik, the [Switch~ Ensemble], and Line Upon Line Percussion. Their work has been commissioned or programed on festivals or concert series such as Time:Spans (New York), Bludenz (Austria), ECLAT (Stuttgart), Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, the impuls Festival (Graz), Wien Modern, Klangspuren, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Maerzmusik (Berlin), and Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles). Their work can be heard on several recordings released on the Huddersfield Contemporary Records label, and their portrait disc, “KARST,” was released on KAIROS Records.
Prior to joining the UCSD community, they taught at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. They hold degrees from Harvard University (PhD), the University of Huddersfield (MPhil), and Oberlin Conservatory of Music (BM).
Photo Credit: Manu Theobald