Tim Hansen

Tim Hansen is a multi-disciplinary artistic, with a professional career spanning 20 years in the fields of music and theatre. A core component of Tim's practice is engaging with young people - he believes every young person has a fundamental right to access music education and artistic expression. Tim is currently engaged with Music Viva as part of their "Musician in the Classroom" program, working in a primary school in an area of socio-economic disadvantage, teaching the teachers how to teach music to their students. He was composer in residence at Santa Sabina College for seven years, and has tutored with a number of youth-arts organisations around Australian including Australian Theatre for Young People, Music for Everyone, and Canberra Youth Theatre. Tim holds a BA (Communications) Theatre/Media (1st Class Hons) from CSU, a BMus (Music Composition) from ANU, and a MMus (Music Theory and Composition) from NYU.