Timothy Young is Head of Piano and Chamber Music at the Australian Academy of Music, a founding member of Ensemble Liaison and enjoys a reputation as one of Australia’s leading pianists. He regularly performs a wide-ranging repertory in recital as soloist and in partnership with leading Australian and international musicians and ensembles.
Timothy has toured Australia with violinist Ray Chen for Musica Viva, performed with the Australian String Quartet, the Australian Brass Quintet, The Sculthorpe Wind Quintet, the ANAM orchestra, and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. He will be performing as soloist later this year with the Australian World Orchestra, Simone Young conducting.
Frequent festival appearances recently include the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, Huntington Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, the Novi Sad Music Summer Festival in Serbia, the Kotor Arts International Festival in Montenegro and the opening recital at the Capraia Festival of Music in Italy.
His internationally acclaimed discography includes numerous recordings for the Tall Poppies and Melba labels and his most recent release was the complete works of Percy Grainger for two pianos with Penelope Thwaites for the Heritage label UK.