Timothy Schmalz

Timothy Schmalz is a composer with a focus on works for the concert hall and visual media. He has a multi instrumental background, with an emphasis compositionally on orchestral and chamber music. Given that much of his composition work began in media music, Schmalz is multi faceted — encompassing a wide variety of musical thinking and creativity. 

On the concert stage, Schmalz has premiered a short orchestral piece The Magi with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, which premiered in a concert alongside some of his favorite Hollywood composers, John Williams and Scott Bradley. He recently completed his first sonata for flute and piano, which is also his debut classical music release (PARMA/Navona Records) featuring the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Hannah Hammel Maser (principal flute), and Zhihua Tang (piano). Concert writing has become a continued focus for Schmalz, with many new works soon to emerge on the horizon. 

As he also continues to emerge on both the concert and media music landscape, you probably have heard some of his media music writing on shows like Supergirl, or films like Playmobil, or in advertisements for companies like Acura. A lot of Schmalz’s early media music credits are additional music compositions for various projects and prominent Hollywood composers, like some listed above. 

Education and honors include selection and attendance of 2018 ASCAP film scoring workshop, (Complimentary 64 piece orchestra to score a scene from Cinderella at Fox Studios) and Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive. Although he is widely self taught in composition, Schmalz studied at UCLA and Berklee College of Music for his broader musical studies, but maintains that most of his compositional education was achieved through self study.