Tim Harper

Tim Harper has been Assistant Director of Music at Ripon
Cathedral since September 2014.  He trained as organ scholar
successively at St Barnabas Church, Dulwich, Clare College,
Cambridge, Canterbury Cathedral and St Paul’s Cathedral; as a
pupil of David Sanger, he gained the major prizes at ARCO and
FRCO and was subsequently awarded the Silver Medal of the
Worshipful Company of Musicians.

In 2010 he was appointed Assistant Director of Music at
Birmingham Cathedral.  During these years, he appeared with
the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Ex Cathedra and the Birmingham
Bach Choir, while studying organ with Andrew Fletcher and
singing with Matthew Venner.

Alongside his cathedral duties, he enjoys recitals, chamber
music and continuo playing; he is also accompanist to Ripon
Choral Society and the early music course NORVIS.  An
interest in jazz keeps his improvisational instincts exercised,
while also finding employment in settings as diverse as boat,
restaurant, funeral, Spain, Harrogate, organ recitals, and jazz
Eucharists at St Paul’s Cathedral.  In 2016 he developed an
interest in orchestral arrangements through his arrangement
of A Colour Symphony by Arthur Bliss, while in 2020 he
ventured into YouTube online recitals with his Six Sixes series
from Ripon Cathedral.