Treasurer, Board of Directors
Timothy Hanson is a Bay Area native and a conductor, composer, pianist, producer, and theater artist whose career has taken him across genres and around the world. As his musical journey brings him once more to San Francisco, he is excited to serve on the board of the Make More Music Foundation.
Tim began studying music with his father before he can even remember. He holds a BMus from the University of Michigan, where he studied composition with Bright Sheng and William Bolcom, piano with Phillip Bush, and conducting with Kenneth Kiesler. Other teachers Tim has had the privilege of studying with include composers Lou Harrison and Samuel Adler and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
After college, Tim became the Founding Artistic Director of HeadlokShuffle, a New York City-based composer/performer collective whose mission was to transgress the boundaries of genre, performance practice, and venue in order to explore the exciting and unusual musical dialogue that can emerge when styles are juxtaposed or fused. In the domain of theater, Tim has nearly twenty-five years’ experience as a director, music supervisor, conductor, orchestrator, and keyboardist, having been involved with productions all over the United States, including four on Broadway. On television, he has worked as a music producer and arranger for the live musical productions Grease, Hairspray, Rent, and The SpongeBob Musical, and he has scored three films and even a video game. In the recording studio, he’s had the great opportunity to work with artists such as Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, and Boyz II Men.
As a teacher for over twenty years, Tim has always sought to bring the insights he gains from his own eclectic experiences into the learning space. He believes that music is a great conversation across time, place, genre, and culture and that breadth of musical exposure and depth of technique form the essential foundation for his students’ own musical journeys.