Tim Price is a freelance woodwind and keyboard performer, composer, arranger, and conductor in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has performed with many artists including jazz musicians James Moody, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Gary Foster, Bill Yeager, Kim Richmond, Eddie Marshall, Dmitri Metheny and John Tchichai, among others.

Tim was a founding member and director of the Bay Area Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, an ensemble dedicated to Third Stream composition and performance, and was also the founding lead alto player of the Dmitry Metheny Jazz Orchestra. His groups, the “Tim Price Jazz Orchestra” and the ”Yes or No” jazz septet regularly perform his compositions and arrangements in the Bay Area.

His music for jazz ensemble is published by Walrus Music Publishing and Union Dues Music Publications. His arrangements for Ragtime Orchestra and Ragtime quintet have been recorded by the Pacific Coast Ragtime Orchestra and the Small Timers Ragtime Quintet. His “Sad Planet Suite,” written for the Bay Area Jazz Composers’ Orchestra, won the Reader’s Digest Meet the Composer award in 1989. During a sabbatical in 2005, he arranged Béla Bartók’s “Concerto for Orchestra” for wind ensemble.