Tim Girard received a B.M. in Composition from the University of Rhode Island in 2001, and between 2001 and 2011 he did a variety of teaching, performing, and composing. Tim taught drums, piano, guitar, and music theory at More Than Music in addition to other private lesson studios throughout Rhode Island, and for a year he was the Classical Percussion Instructor at the Community College of Rhode Island. Tim was the Drumline Instructor for the University of Rhode Island Marching Band for ten years and for two years he was the Percussion Instructor for the Franklin High School Marching Band and Percussion Ensemble. As a percussionist, Tim performed with the Thayer Symphony Orchestra, Atlantic Wind Symphony, Southeastern Massachusetts Wind Symphony, The American Band, Milford Concert Band, Symphony Pro Musica, Rhode Island Philharmonic Community Orchestra, Brown Wind Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble, and Wheaton College Wind Ensemble. Tim also played drum set for musicals at the Prout School, Johnson and Wales University, and Franklin High School, and he played drum set, keyboard, and guitar in various rock bands. As a composer, Tim was commissioned by the Ocean State Chamber Orchestra, the Ocean State Youth Orchestra, the Ocean State Music Collaborative, the URI Concert Band, and the Woonsocket High School Concert Band.

In 2011 Tim moved to Colorado to attend the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, and was a Graduate Teaching Assistant for Music Theory II, Aural Skills II, and Orchestration until he received his M.M. in Composition in 2013. Since graduating from DU, Tim has been teaching and composing, with an emphasis on film scoring. For two seasons, Tim was the Composer for Opera Colorado’s Page to Stage program, and for a year he was the Drumline Instructor for Castle View High School’s Marching Band and Indoor Drumline. Tim has had numerous orchestral works performed at the Lamont Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Concerts, and he has also composed music for podcasts, video games, and short films, including LEGO stop-motion animated films, the trailer for a Star Wars fan film, and most recently, a comic book superhero fan series. In September of 2022, Tim received an M.M. in Film Scoring from the Berklee College of Music. Tim’s music can be heard on his website (TheTimGirard.com) and YouTube channel. Currently, Tim tutors college students in music theory, aural skills, musicology, ethnomusicology, and music technology, and he teaches private studio lessons in guitar, ukulele, piano, drums, music theory, and songwriting/composition throughout Colorado at Maestro Music Institute (in Arvada), American Music School (in Lakewood), and Classical Tones (in Broomfield). Tim has written his own method books for snare drum, drum set, guitar, and ukulele which he uses as a part of his teaching curriculum in his lessons.