Musical Director: Tim Pithers
Photo credit: Theodore Pagan
Tim is passionate about community and student music-making and firmly believes that classical music should be made as accessible as possible to performers and audiences alike. He undertook his degree in Music and French at the University of Exeter studying violin, composition and musical direction.
Tim studied conducting with Denise Ham at the London Conducting Academy, completing the programme in 2024. He has also studied with Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Dominic Grier and Denise Ham at the George Hurst Conductors’ Course at Sherborne Summer School of Music, at the Girton Conducting Course and at other public masterclasses. He enjoys working with ensembles of varying degrees of experience and aims to develop ambitious objectives for amateur groups.
As well as being Conductor of Dartmouth Orchestra , Tim is also Conductor of Dunsford Singers, Exeter University Symphony Orchestra and Exeter University Symphonic Wind Orchestra and EX4 Chamber Orchestra.
Leader: Brenda Willoughby
Brenda won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music when she was sixteen. She studied with David Martin and Frederick Grinke and won several prizes. When living in Hertfordshire she combined playing and teaching with bringing up three children. For many years she was leader of the St Albans’ Chamber Orchestra and the Cambridge Symphonia. She moved to Devon in 1987 and combined teaching and an active playing career, playing with the Ten Tors Orchestra, Divertimento, The Pressenda Ensemble and Truro Three Spires.