Biyografi
Born and educated in Australia, now based in Los Angeles, the Grammy- and Annie-nominated musician splits his time between orchestrating for features, television, and video games; composing his own scores; and conducting and arranging for orchestras all around the globe. He is lead orchestrator for Christophe Beck, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Fil Eisler. His film and TV credits as orchestrator and/or conductor include Frozen and Frozen 2, both Ant-Man movies, The Lego Movie 2, Empire, and WandaVision. He is also prolific in the world of video games, having worked on multiple titles from the God of War, Infamous, Sims, Ratchet and Clank, Resistance and Batman franchises, Marvel's Spider-man, and Halo: Infinite.
Davies has also scored several high-profile projects. He has special relationships with Mexican directors Jorge Gutierrez and Guillermo del Toro. He scored Gutierrez's show Maya and the Three, and previously collaborated with two-time Oscar winner Gustavo Santaolalla to score The Book of Life. He also received an Annie nomination for his work scoring Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia, executive produced by del Toro, and contributed additional music for Crimson Peak.
Davies is an active pop and jazz arranger as well. He has contributed multiple arrangements to concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra with artists including NAS, Kendrick Lamar, Ledisi, Common, Maxwell, Babyface, Ray Chen, Christian McBride, and Dianne Reeves. He enjoys a close relationship with the Metropole Orchestra in the Netherlands and has recently written for concerts featuring Donny McCaslin, Cory Henry, and Ibeyi. He has contributed arrangements for several recent BBC Proms concerts, most recently the BBC Symphony and Moses Sumney. He has received two Grammy nominations for works for his own 18-piece Tim Davies Big Band, in 2010 and 2016.
He shares his thoughts on orchestration and other related topics at his blog, deBreved.
