new recording

new disc on Another Timbre 

Jack Yarbrough plays mine but for its sublimation [recorded at Oktaven]

available now [CD or digital download]

“…a spiritual event.” - Alex Ross, The New Yorker

read an interview with Another Timbre about this piece here

[full discography here]



upcoming performances

Seated at the Throat - Ty Bouque. MaerzMusik. Berlin, Germany [March 28, 2025]

a vapor (no body, no image)Ty Bouque & the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Ilan Volkov). Tectonics Festival. Glasgow, Scotland. [May 3, 2025] (world premiere)

a vapor (no body, no image) - Broadcast: Ty Bouque & the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Ilan Volkov). BBC Radio 3: New Music Show. [May 10, 2025]

Seated at the Throat - Ty Bouque. Lecture-Performance. Divergent Studio. Longy School of Music. Cambridge, MA. [June 17, 2025]

… stretched across its axes - Marco Fusi. Conrad Prebys Music Center. UCSD. San Diego, CA [December 12, 2025] (US premiere)

deep terrane (something moves) - Bouque / Yager / McCormack. Conrad Prebys Music Center. UCSD. San Diego, CA [June 10, 2026]

[past performances]


news

NEW TEXT: Bach’s Colossus - Column in the New Yorker about Bach as well as my piano solo, mine but for its sublimation, written by Alex Ross [June, 2025]

NEW TEXT: Outside Inside (Love) - Essay by Ty Bouque in TEMPO: A Quarterly Review of New Music on my voice solo solo, Seated at the Throat [June, 2025]

NEW PUBLISHER: my works are now published by Edition Gravis

NEW RECORDING: monographic CD on Another Timbre: Jack Yarbrough plays mine but for its sublimation - purchase here

NEW ARTICLE: “Proximity To The Void: The Articulation Of Distance In The Music Of Michelle Lou” published in TEMPO: A Quarterly Review of New Music (April 2025)

NEW WORK: a vapor (no body, no image) (for solo baritone & orchestra)

NEW POSITION: Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of California San Diego (UCSD)

NEW WORK: … stretched across its axes (for solo viola)

NEW INTERVIEW: Interview with Timothy McCormack with Simon Reynell of Another Timbre

NEW INTERVIEW: from within: Caspar Johannes Walter & Timothy McCormack with the Schallfeld Ensemble (Radio Schallfeld)

NEW PROFILE: Urgent Attention: A profile of composer Timothy McCormack [VAN Magazine, Jeffrey Arlo Brown]

Awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Composers' Prize 2018.