Tim Davies (musician)


Tim Davies is an Australian orchestrator and composer for film, television, video games, and the concert stage.

Education

Davies studied percussion and composition at the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane, and composition at the Elder Conservatorium and the University of Melbourne.

Career

After moving to the United States in 1998, he began his career working as a music arranger and orchestrator for numerous features, including Plan B, The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, and Missing Brendan. From there, he would go on to work as the orchestrator on numerous larger budget films, including When a Stranger Calls, Death Race, Repo Men, and Kick Ass 2.
In 2002, Davies also started working in the realms of television, as the music arranger for the TV Movie Fitzgerald. Since then, he has worked as conductor and orchestrator on series such as Invasion, Pushing Daisies, Revenge, and Empire. In 2016, it was announced that he would be working as the composer on Trollhunters, the new animated series from Guillermo Del Toro's animated, whom Davies had previously collaborated with as the composer for Crimson Peak.
Davies has also worked as the conductor on numerous video game titles, his debut work being for the Sony's 2005 . Since then, he's worked on titles such as Prototype, Resistance 3 and . He was also, recently, the symphonic sound designer on The Last of Us and .
Davies also has experience as an arranger, having arranged and played drums for the twentieth anniversary concert of NAS' Illmatic and being <--to avoid false positives in search for 'being led/lead' typo-->lead arranger for Kendrick Lamar's recent performance of To Pimp a Butterfly, both featuring the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.

Tim Davies Big Band

Tim Davies Big Band was founded in 1998, shortly before Davies moved to the United States. Once in LA, he created a new iteration of the band. Their first album, Epic, was released in 2002, followed, in 2009, by Dialmentia. In 2010, Davies was awarded a Grammy for his composition "Counting to Infinity". In 2016, Davies released his third album, The Expensive Train Set, incorporating performances from both Melbourne and LA iterations of his band, for which he received another Grammy nomination.

Filmography

Films

Television

Video games