Being an experienced concert soloist and recording artist, Tim’s repertoire choices often reflect his love of transcription and jazz, as well as his interests in English and French romantic music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Recent Solo Concert Repertoire includes:

All tracks featured on ‘Transcriptions’:

  • Transcriptions by Percy Grainger; Après un rêve and Nell by Gabriel Faure, and Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part by John Dowland, Blithe Bells based on J.S. Bach's 'Sheep May Safely Graze'

  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas, transcribed by Tim Rumsey

  • Orb & Sceptre, Coronation March (1953), by William Walton, transcribed by Tim Rumsey

  • Liza, No.1 from Seven Virtuoso Etudes by Earl Wild/George Gershwin

  • En avril à Paris by Charles Trenet/Walter Eiger, transcribed by Alexis Weissenberg

  • Variations on Gershwin’s ‘Shall We Dance’ by Tim Rumsey

Other recent Solo Repertoire includes:

  • Nocturnes 4 & 5 by Gabriel Faure

  • Ballade Op.19 by Gabriel Faure

  • The Hourglass & A Fairy Tale Suite by Frank Bridge

  • Caprice No.2 Op.33 & Rondo Capriccioso Op.14 by Felix Mendelssohn

  • Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel

  • Sonata No.18 in D Major K.576 by W.A. Mozart

  • Impromptus (Op.29 in Ab, Op.36 in F#, Op.51 in Gb) by Frederic Chopin

  • Grand Fantasy on George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess by Earl Wild

  • Suite from Violin Partita in E Major by J.S. Bach, by Sergei Rachmaninoff

  • Ballade (L.70), Nocturne (L.82), & Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne L.69) by Claude Debussy

  • Sarnia: An Island Sequence by John Ireland

Previously performed Concertos

  • Piano Concerto No.4 in G Major Op.54 by Ludwig van Beethoven

  • Piano Concerto No.5 in F Major 'Egyptian' Op.103 by Camille Saint-Saens

  • Piano Concerto No.17 in G Major K.453 by W.A. Mozart

  • Piano Concerto in Eb Major by John Ireland

Duo/trio repertoire has included the following:

Pearl Trio (Violin, Clarinet & Piano):

  • Suite for Trio by Alexander Arutiunian

  • Suite for Violin, Clarinet & Piano by Darius Milhaud

  • Trio for Violin, Clarinet & Piano by Aram Khachaturian

  • A Soldier's Tale Suite for Trio by Igor Stravinsky

  • An American in Paris by George Gershwin, arranged for trio by Tim Rumsey

  • 'Decorations' for Trio, by Tim Rumsey

Selected Duo repertoire:

  • Three Romances for Violin and Piano Op.22 by Clara Schumann

  • Sonata Posthume and Violin Sonata No.2 by Maurice Ravel

  • Clarinet Sonata by Arnold Bax

  • Four Characteristic Pieces for Clarinet & Piano by William Hurlstone

  • Viola Sonata by Arthur Bliss

  • Violin Sonata by Edward Elgar