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Tim Hawes

Tim Hawes began his professional career at the age of 18 when he took his first position with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon. Upon his return to the UK Tim embarked on a successful, freelance career that has been remarkable in its diversity and quality: A glittering array of guest orchestral playing and trials for top positions in most of the London orchestras, long standing membership of both the Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble and the Wallace Collection, the longest serving principal trumpet in London’s West End in “Les Miserables”, playing for film sessions and a thriving solo portfolio.

It is perhaps his playing of high parts on the piccolo trumpet that has attracted the most attention and he is regarded as a leading exponent on the instrument. Both P.J.B.E. and the Wallace Collection programs featured Tim’s remarkable piccolo skills and he is regularly in demand with top London orchestras when demanding and especially contemporary piccolo trumpet parts arrive.

Tim has a wide repertoire of Baroque works and regularly performs the second Brandenburg Concerto, recently performing them in the House of Lords. He has toured the second Brandenburg Concerto twice with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, performed them in the Edinburgh Festival with the Tblisi Chamber Orchestra and toured Japan with I Fiaminghi. Tim’s other solo appearances include the Shostakovich Concerto for Trumpet and Piano which he has recorded with Oxford Orchestra Da Camera and recently performed with John Lill and the Russian Chamber Orchestra at St Johns Smiths Square, the Hummel which Tim played at the Eisenstadt Festival in 2000 as a live European broadcast.

Tim gives regular trumpet and organ recitals with Malcolm Rudland with whom he toured Hong Kong and Malaysia in 2004. Tim is professor of trumpet at the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music, regularly gives master classes and adjudicates for competitions.

Quotes:

“…of particular note is the phenomenal piccolo trumpet of Tim Hawes not only on this track (Music for the Royal Fireworks) but throughout the whole CD…”

- Jamie Prophet of the BBC Philharmonic Trumpet section review of “the London Trumpet Sound”

“Tim Hawes is the most amazing exponent of the piccolo trumpet I have come across. His high chops are Himalayan…..the security and safety behind his exciting sorties into the stratosphere became legendary. Tim is adept in many styles and brings unerring logic to imparting knowledge of how to get around the trumpet, whatever the style…”

- John Wallace