Tim Corpus
Raised in the Chicagoland area, Tim Corpus is a composer | arranger | sound designer | arts manager working in live performances, film, and interactive media.
Highlights include performances at Carnegie Hall, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Kennedy Center for the Arts, Federal Justica Cultural Center of Brazil, the NYC MoMA, RHA Gallery in Ireland, and the Chicago Cultural Center. In addition to concerts, he has been featured on CNN Money, BBC Radio3, 98.7 WFMT, Classical King FM: Second Inversion, and various festivals.
As a composer for visual media, his scores have garnered awards including Best Original Score (Artists’ Choice Awards) and nominated for Best Original Music at the Motion Club Indie Film Awards for his score to “Cheesecake & Rainbow Tights”. In 2020 he joined the team at Ore Studios as lead audio designer for the highly anticipated game “Ira, Act I: Pilgrimage”.
His 2021 album “MMXX”, was a 2022 GRAMMY-Selected album and hailed as “a striking disc” by critic Robert Hugill. Recent commissions include a multi-media dance work by creative director Katherine McClintic premiered at Gibney Dance in New York City, and a double concerto for two percussion, premiering at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre with soloists Ed Harrison (Lyric Opera of Chicago) and Vadim Karpinos (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) in 2024.
In addition to his own music, Tim often arranged and orchestrates music for performers around the world including Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Third Coast Percussion, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and many more.
His diverse career in the arts has also included work as an Executive Director, Production Manager, Marketing Director, and an educator with Chicago City Colleges and Loyola University Chicago, having taught there from 2012 – 2017.
An in-demand arts manager, he has served as Board President of the Illinois Council of Orchestras since 2018 and worked with organizations around the country including the Hyde Park Youth Symphony, Charlotte New Music Festival, Lake Forest Symphony, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, and the Opera Festival of Chicago where he was a founding member.
From 2017 – 2020 he served as Executive Director of the Lake Forest Symphony and in this short time led the organization to its first financially profitable season since 2013-14 and negotiated a three-year contract with the Chicago Federation of Musicians. The organization also recorded three albums with Cedille Records, including the GRAMMY-Nominated album “Liquid Melancholy”.
A recipient of awards and commissions, Mr. Corpus was selected for a 3Arts Project Award (2014) and has received numerous awards from ASCAP, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and the Illinois Arts Council. He has also been recognized for his research of Filipino composer Lucio D. San Pedro where he presented at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Hartford.
Tim earned his bachelor of music degree in percussion performance from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and a master of music degree in music composition from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford.
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