Tim
Brace Music
| June 2008 |
"Rhapsody for a Dancer" licensed for video clip by Guy Finley | Tim's guitar solo "Rhapsody for a Dancer" has been licensed by the Life of Learning Foundation to be used in a video clip featuring best-selling inner life author Guy Finley. The performance is by guitarist Matthew Hinsley from the CD Music for Solo Guitar. The score and CD are available from this site. |
| April 2008 | Paid digital downloads of "Songs of Healing" surpass 1,000 | Fully paid digital downloads (not counting paid listens) of the pieces from the CD Songs of Healing has topped 1,000! All pieces can be heard in excerpt at CD Baby and are available in digital format from many online vendors, including iTunes, Amazon.com, and eMusic. All scores are available from this site. The most popular download? "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing," followed closely by "Amazing Grace" and "Be Thou My Vision." |
| February 2008 | "Be Thou My Vision" licensed for upcoming DVD | Imago Relationship Therapy, based on the work of Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, has licensed Tim's arrangement and recording of "Be Thou My Vision" to use in the soundtrack of a soon to be released DVD. The recording, score, and links to downloadable mp3s of the recording are available here. |
| April 2007 | High School Advanced Ensemble performs "Water Over Glass," wins First Place at Guitar Fesetival Competition | The Advanced Guitar Ensemble at McCallum High School (a magnet arts school) in Austin, Texas performs Water Over Glass at the Guitar Ensemble Festival competition in Brownsville, Texas, winning first place in the high school division (in this video excerpt of the winning performance, Water Over Glass is the second selection). The competition included guitar ensembles from several states. The score is available here. |
| December 2006 | Digital downloads surpass 1,000 | The total digital downloads from the pieces from Tim's four CDs has topped 1,000. All pieces can be heard in excerpt at CD Baby and are available in digital format from many online vendors, including iTunes and eMusic. |
| August 2006 | Tim Brace releases fourth CD | Tim has released his fourth CD, Answer the Call: Sacred Songs for a Torn World, containing 12 sacred songs written or arranged by Tim Brace, who sings and plays acoustic guitar. This CD features multiple Grammy-winning accordionist Joel Guzman, with appearances by "Sweet Mary" Hattersley on violin and Conor Brace on trumpet. |
| February 2006 | Modern dance company licenses "Prelude No.3" for performances | Susan Marshall & Company has licensed Tim's solo guitar piece "Prelude No.3" to use as musical accompaniment to a set of dance pieces they will perform for the upcoming year. Other composers with whose works Prelude No.3 will share the stage include Philip Glass and David Byrne. |
| November 2005 | Tim Brace releases third CD | Tim has released his third CD, Songs of Healing, containing 15 Christian hymns arranged for solo classical guitar. Arranged and performed by Tim Brace. This album includes 5 hymns originally recorded on Tim's earlier CD By My Side. |
| July 2005 |
TodaysComposers.com accepts "Prelude No.2" for podcast | Today's Composers, a web service providing podcasts of new music by contemporary composers, has accepted Tim's solo guitar piece Prelude No.2 for podcast. |
| February 2005 | Tim Brace releases second CD featuring Matt Hinsley | Tim has released his second CD, Music for Solo Guitar, containing nine original compositions and two folksong arrangements for solo classical guitar. Arranged by Tim Brace and performed by award-winning guitarist Matthew Hinsley. |
| January 2005 | "Tejana" wins composition competition | Tim's guitar quartet Tejana:Romanza for Four Guitars has won first prize in the First Annual Composition Competition sponsored by the Austin Classical Guitar Society. |
| August 2004 | Guitar solo work chosen for Vox Novus 60X60 Project | The second of Tim's Five Small Pieces for Guitar has been chosen as one of 60 pieces of less than 60 seconds duration to be performed on the Vox Novus 60X60 Project 2005 Midwest Concert Series. |
| November 1998 | Tim Brace releases first CD | Tim has released his first CD, By My Side, containing seven Christian songs and five Christian hymns arranged for solo classical guitar. The songs feature vocals by Hilary Kaufmann Smith; three of the songs are new compositions from Tim Brace. All arrangements and guitar performances are by Tim Brace. |