Timothy Brock

Timothy Brock (b. 1963) is an American conductor and composer who specializes in the early XX-century music and restorations of silent film live orchestral scores. He has a studio in Bologna, Italy, and regularly works with the Cineteca di Bologna film preservation center. Some of his notable restorations include Dmitri Shostakovich's only silent film score for The New Babylon (1929) co-written and co-directed by Leonid Trauberg and Grigori Kozintsev, Max Butting's Opus I (1920), Ildebrando Pizzetti's Sinfonia del fuoco (1914), L'Assassinat du duc de Guise (1908) by Camille Saint-Saëns, and a few dadaist works, like Erik Satie's Entr'acte and George Antheil's Ballet mécanique in 1924. Brock extensively collaborated with Charlie Chaplin's estate between 1998 and 2012, restoring eleven feature-length and short silent film scores, including Modern Times (1936), City Lights (1931), and The Gold Rush (1924). In 2004, Timothy transcribed over 13 hours of unheard Chaplin piano compositions from newly discovered acetates, devising a new score for A Woman in Paris (1923); he conducted it many times since then. He wrote over 25 original scores for silent films, including F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), Miss Europe (1930) with Orchestre De Lyon, Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr. (with Berner Symphonieorchester), and Cameraman (with The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra), Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with Brussels Philharmonic, and Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen premiered at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Spain.