After graduating from Cambridge, Timothy Reynish was first horn in Sadler’s Wells and City of Birmingham SO. His conducting studies were with George Hurst, Sir Charles Groves and Sir Adrian Boult, Dean Dixon, and Franco Ferrara at the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. A prize winner in the Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in New York, he is widely recognised as one of the leading conductors of wind bands and wind ensembles. At the RNCM, he developed the wind orchestra and ensemble to become one of the best in the world, commissioning over one hundred works from major composers, and performing regularly in Festivals. He has given clinics, lectured, guest conducted and adjudicated in Asia, Australasia, Canada, South America, Europe and USA, and he is Editor with Maecenas Music. He has made seventeen commercial recordings of international repertoire, the latest with the US Coast Guard Band. In 2010, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the University of Kharkiv in Ukraine, was made an MBE for services to music in 2019, and at the 2022 WASBE Conference in Prague was given the Lifetime Achievement Award, only the second time this has happened.