Modern Art Song

An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition. By extension, the term "art song" is used to refer to the collective genre of such songs. Modern art song includes contemporary compositions for unaccompanied solo voice, voice with electronics, and voice with minimalist accompaniment by other instruments. 

Mister Tim studied traditional classical music at the University of Utah and the University of Colorado-Boulder. Melding his love of western concert music with contemporary vocals and songwriting, he sings unique, expressive music in the tradition of classical art song but from contemporary sources and with modern technological and genre influences. 

Mister Tim's upcoming Modern Art Song programs:

Autumn 2024: Music for Solo Voice and Electronics 

The Fool On the Hill Lennon/McCartney, If You Could Hie to Kolob trad/Phelps Summertime Gershwin

Jeremiah Pollock, A Question/A Tiger, The Fire That Consumes Your Eyes, Bubbles, Riverside, Rumination/Conundrum, 9:15 (suite): the Mount Burned with Fire, Everything pt. 1, Fish in a Blender, Everything pt. 2, reprise; Mister Tim Welcomes You to the End of the World (suite): Ashes, The Color of Night, By a Tree in the Rain, Are You Gonna -Mister Tim 

Spring 2025: Celtic and American Folk Songs 

Poor Wayfaring Stranger arr. Mister Tim, Los Cristales Turbios Reese Norris, Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms Moore, The Water is Wide traditional, I Want Danny Back arr. Mister Tim, Red is the Rose traditional, The Wild Mountain Thyme traditional, Falling Slowly Hansard/Irglova, Roll the Chariot Along traditional 

Summer - Autumn 2025: The Rogues Gallery: Songs of Triumphant Tragedy solo voice with Piano Accompaniment 

Song for the Siren Tim Buckley, Cool Sam Payne, Spoon River Anthology Andrew Downes, Lead, Kindly Light arr. Mister Tim, Try to Remember Jones, Pirate King Gilbert & Sullivan, Blackout Muse, I Will Wait Mumford & Sons

Crimson Skies, The Pirate Song, It's Been So Long, Now the Moon, So Warm, Horticulture, Hawaii -Mister Tim

Spring 2026: Celestial Sightings and Murder Ballads: Traditional and Contemporary Story Songs for Voice and Guitar 

Flow My Tears Dowland, Der Lindenbaum Schubert, St James Infirmary traditional, She Walked Through the Fair traditional, Tom Dooley traditional, Long Black Veil traditional, The Hanging Tree Howard, Streets of Laredo traditional, El Paso Marty Robbins, Delilah Mason/Reed, Mack the Knife Weill/Brecht, Sailor Boy Britten

John Brown, Clouds and Kisses, Oh Madeline, On and On -Mister Tim