Tim Cain

Tim Cain, a British composer, writes music for a wide variety of occasions, performers and ability levels, amateur and professional.  As a school music teacher, he wrote musicals for individual schools and youth choirs, including The beast with a thousand teeth, which involved several hundred children from schools in and around Southampton. He wrote songs and incidental music for a production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and music for amateur dramatic groups in Bristol. A singer himself, he writes music for Masses, Weddings, and motets and anthems for church choirs. His Song for Winchester gained first prize in that city’s Arts Festival and his competition-winning piece, Rock, Paper, Scissors, written when he was teaching at Kingston University, was performed at the China Conservatoire in Beijing and in St. Johns, Smith Square, London. 

In 2020 he was Joint Winner in the Tapiola Choir’s Choral Composition Competition, and his piece Change is coming (below) was performed at the Tapiola Choir’s Summer Summit in Helsinki, Finland. More recently he was the joint winner of the Bach Choir’s Sir David Willcocks Carol Competition, judged by David Hill MBE, Jonathan Willcocks and Cecilia McDowall. His winning carol, Let us now go to Bethlehem, was premiered by the Bach Choir at Cadogan Hall, London on December 20, 2022.

His music has been performed by Bach Choir, London; Tapiola Choir, Finland and National Youth Girls Choir, UK among others. It is said to have a ready appeal and a lyrical style and has an immediate impact on audiences.

Buying compositions

To see sample pages of compositions, click the ‘Compositions’ link (at the top of this page). If you would like copies of any composition on this site, I would be happy to provide them – in return, I ask you to donate to Help Musicians. This is a worthwhile charity and so far my compositions have raised over £1200 for them. If you have any questions, please contact me.