Reimagining Historical Voices
Tim Braithwaite
The initiative Cacophony! is primarily coordinated by founder and artistic director, Tim Braithwaite. Based in The Netherlands, Tim’s career is multi-faceted within the broad field of "Early Music."
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Tim is an English singer, conductor, and music theorist based in the Netherlands. As a singer, Tim maintains an international concert schedule, appearing both as a soloist and with leading ensembles in the field of Early Music, including Amsterdam Baroque, Vox Luminis, and the Nederlandse Bachvereniging.
Alongside his work as a performer, Tim teaches Renaissance counterpoint and analysis at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, as well as classes on historical solmisation and singing from historical notation.
He is widely sought after as a visiting teacher, having delivered workshops and lectures at universities and conservatoires throughout the UK, USA, and Europe.​
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In 2025, Tim was appointed as the artistic director of the Gramophone Award-winning ensemble Cappella Pratensis. The ensemble specialises in the historically informed performance of Renaissance Music, singing directly from historical notation and working directly with historical theoretical and practical tools.
"I found the operatic tenors, the rubati and glissandi [in historical recordings of Renaissance polyphony] hysterical at first, but after the workshop I found the current mainstream baroque practice extremely boring. It really changed my way of hearing aspects of the piece, the parts, the parameters, the registers, and also made me rethink the meanings we attribute to sound."