Tim Lole

After five years as a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral, Tim Lole continued his musical studies at Trinity College Cambridge, where he was Organ Scholar, The Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio. He began his freelance career as a repetiteur working at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and for City of Birmingham Touring Opera. From 1991-95 he was Staff Conductor at Scottish Opera, where he conducted several operas, including The Turn of the Screw, which was filmed for BBC 2.

In 1992, he won the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Since then he has conducted operas for most of the opera companies in the UK.

Tim started studying singing with Michelle Wegwart in 1997 and has been closely involved with Magdala ever since.

As artist in residence he has conducted, accompanied, written arrangements for and sung with the chorus as well as running education workshops around the county.