Timothy Peterson’s music has been performed in the US, Europe, and Australia at venues ranging from galleries and distilleries to Times Square (Anita’s Way), National Sawdust, and Lincoln Center. His chamber and vocal works have been featured at events such as the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, BMP: Next Gen (Beth Morrison Projects), the Hear Now Music Festival (Los Angeles), and La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest.

Recent projects include commissions from the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music (Composing Earth initiative), the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Cincinnati Song Initiative, and pianist Nic Gerpe (“Makrokosmos 50 Project”). Current projects include a monodrama for soprano Kaileigh Riess.

Timothy is pursuing his DMA at the University of Southern California, where his mentors include Nina C. Young, Sean Friar, Frank Ticheli, and Alan Smith. Timothy also holds a MM in Composition from USC and undergraduate degrees in composition and comparative literature from the University of Michigan, where his mentors included Kristin Kuster, Evan Chambers, Erik Santos, Paul Schoenfeld, and Martin Katz. Additional mentors include Gabriela Lena Frank, Libby Larsen, Kyle Blaha, and Wilma Machover.

Timothy has also studied Carnatic (South Indian) singing in Mysore under Rajalakshi Kamala, Afro-Cuban batá drumming in Havana under Octavio Rodríguez Rivera, and the qanun (Arabic zither) in Tangier under Mohamed El Harzli. His studies in Morocco were supported by grants from the University of Michigan Honors and Islamic Studies Programs.

Timothy is a self-publishing member of ASCAP.