Presenter(s)

London-born, Simon Tillier is a conductor, performer, and educator, currently on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Morris, a liberal arts-based campus in central Minnesota, USA. He studied clarinet performance with Alan Hacker and Neville Duckworth at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and conducting privately with Timothy Reynish MBE and Michael Rose. Simon relocated to North America to pursue masters and doctoral studies in conducting and music education with Glenn Price at the University of Calgary, Canada and Rodney Winther at the College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, USA. In his current position his cross-discipline approach provides him the opportunity to commission and collaborate on works involving music, word, theatre, and dance. His research into Shakespeare and music comes from a wind specialist perspective and is part of a broader area of interest in the renaissance of British wind music in the late twentieth century.