Tim is writing the music for Cycle Song.
Tim Sutton’s work as a composer spans the worlds of musical theatre, choral music and large-scale community performance. This year, his song I Am won the Best Song Award at the Stephen Sondheim Performer of the Year Competition, and his carol The Seven Joys was nominated for a British Composer Award (winner to be announced on November 30th). His concert work Unplugged: Winning the Clay was commissioned and performed by The Eden Project, and he is very proud to be involved with imove in the ambitious new community opera Cycle Song. Other works include The Secret Garden (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Dreamfighter (Lichfield Festival) and The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland).
Tim also hosts a podcast, Voice of the Musical, in which he interview the writers of the most successful musicals of our time, and he is the Musical Director of upbeat, a new community choir in East London. He teaches the craft of music theatre writing at BML in London, and is a close-up magician, and an Associate of the Inner Magic Circle of Great Britain.
Cycle Song
This July, the whole of Scunthorpe will come together for The Brumby Bash, a big free festival of cycling, arts and sport centred round a brand new opera to celebrate Scunthorpe's rich cycling history and unsung local hero Lal White. Cycle Song is written by Ian McMillan, composed by Tim Sutton, and involved a community...
Cycle Song
Proper Job Theatre Company and Scunthorpe Cooperative Junior Choir join forces to celebrate Scunthorpe, cycling and an unsung local hero. Albert ‘Lal’ White was an extraordinary man, working in the back-breaking steelworks by day and an Olympic cyclist in his spare time. Lal symbolises the spirit and determination it takes to rise above the ordinary,...
