Timothy Parsons is a conductor and Grammy-nominated countertenor whose choral work is shaped by more than fifteen years of singing at the highest level, on six Grammy-nominated recordings and with ensembles including Blue Heron, the Clarion Choir, Apollo’s Fire, and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street (now Trinity Church NYC). He brings a singer’s understanding of ensemble, text, and vocal health to every rehearsal.

Timothy currently serves as Interim Music Director of the Brattleboro Camerata, a 20-voice ensemble devoted to Renaissance polyphony at the Brattleboro Music Center. He also directs &choir, the community choral initiative of the Renaissance vocal ensemble Ampersand, where he serves as Director of Concert Programming. He has previously served as Music Director of the Park Slope Singers and Artistic Director of the Elision Chamber Ensemble. Guest-conducting engagements include the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola, the Dessoff Choirs, Downtown Voices, and the Musettes, the youth choir of Apollo’s Fire. His choirs have collaborated on projects including David Lang’s the mile-long opera and New York Theatre Workshop’s The Events.

Programming sits at the center of Timothy’s work. He has served as programming consultant to TENET Vocal Artists for Polifonía de las Américas and Rejoice, Rejoice: Pillars of the English Renaissance, and as recording producer for the New Consort.

An active educator, Timothy has given residencies with Ekmeles at Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Washington, and has worked with choirs at Williams College and Lycoming College. He has served as a clinician for the Artefact Choral Scholars Summer Institute and as Adjunct Professor of Voice at William Paterson University, and has taught singers of all ages, including choristers at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, and Trinity Youth Choirs. He maintains a private voice studio in Vermont.

Timothy holds an M.M. in Choral Conducting from the Manhattan School of Music, where he helped prepare choirs for the New York Philharmonic.