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Timothy Brock’s association with silent film began in 1985 when he was commissioned to write a score to accompany the Georg Wilhelm Pabst film, Pandora’s box. Subsequently he has written or restored original orchestral scores to nearly 20 silent films, including Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill Jr. and the Bbc Television documentary The tramp and the dictator. On a commission from the New Zealand Film Festival and Music Publishers Boosey and Hawkes, he restored the 1929 manuscript score to Dmitri Shostakovich’s only silent film work New Babylon.
In January of 1999, he was asked by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, in cooperation with the Association Chaplin in Paris, to restore and reconstruct for live performance Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 score to Modern times. For the past three years M° Brock has been serving as music director/conductor in over 100 performances for the Charles Chaplin family, and has since then been engaged by the Chaplins to restore their father’s scores to The circus (1928), A dog’s life (1918), Shoulder arms (1918), The pilgrim (1923) as well as a symphonic concert suite of Modern times (1936). Currently he is undertaking the complete restoration of Charles Chaplin’s score to his most famous film masterpiece City lights (1931) and Chaplin’s only dramatic film A woman of Paris (1923).
Among M° Brock’s conducting engagements, most notably the Bbc Concert Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall, Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des Ndr, Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra, Japan, and the Athens State Symphony Orchestra in Greece. Recently he has conducted the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Sweden’s Malmö Opera Orchestra and the Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur, Opera National de Bordeaux, Orquestra simfónica de Barcelona, Düsseldorfer Symphonie-Orchester,and the Accademia St. Cecilia in Rome. Future engagements include performances in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Holland, Czech Republic, New Zealand and the United States.