Timothy Reynish studied horn with Aubrey Brain and was principal horn with Sadler’s Wells Opera and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He studied conducting with Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Charles Groves, Dean Dixon and Franco Ferrara, and he was a prize-winner in the Mitropoulos International Competition in New York. He has conducted the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the BBC regional orchestras and the London Symphony Orchestra as well as orchestras in Germany, Holland, Norway and the Middle East. In 1977 he succeeded Philip Jones as Head of the School of Wind and Percussion at the Royal Northern College of Music, retiring in 1998 and being appointed Resident Conductor. In 1982 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Scholarship to research wind bands in the USA. Since then he has lectured and conducted widely throughout the USA, Canada, Europe and Japan and has commissioned over a score of major wind works. In 2001 he became President of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles.