Parsons, Timothy

Timothy Parsons

Countertenor and conductor Timothy Parsons moves easily between the fifteenth century and the twenty-first. He has sung on six Grammy-nominated recordings, including Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil with Clarion Choir and Benedict Sheehan’s Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and Akathist, on which he is a featured soloist. He appears regularly with TENET Vocal Artists, Blue Heron, Clarion Choir, and Res Facta, and he is a core member of the new-music vocal ensemble Ekmeles, winner of the 2023 Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize.

His 2026–27 season includes Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St. John Passion with TENET, the St. Matthew Passion with Trinity Church NYC, Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, a U.S. tour of the DIALOG Across Oceans project with France’s Ensemble Mêtis, and Stockhausen’s Stimmung with Ekmeles. Recent highlights include an international tour of Handel’s Hercules with Clarion and The English Concert, and Messiah with the Asheville Symphony. A staff alto with Trinity for a decade, he sang in the world premieres of two Pulitzer Prize–winning operas, Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone and Ellen Reid’s p r i s m. He has also served as alto lay clerk at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

As a conductor, Timothy is Interim Music Director of the Brattleboro Camerata and directs &choir, the community choir of the vocal ensemble Ampersand. He lives in Richmond, Vermont, where he teaches voice and plays clawhammer banjo.