Bill Lockhart

Alongside his career in opera he has performed in a wide variety of ensembles and genres, playing timpani and percussion as a guest with all the London orchestras and in smaller ensembles ranging from mediaeval music to the avant-garde, including memorable collaborations with Nexus, John Cage and Steve Reich.

Much of his freelance work is in recording studios, where he has contributed to hundreds of film soundtracks (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, The Hunger Game, Fantastic Beasts and the Doctor Strange series, among others), and commercial recordings for such artists as Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell and Gregory Porter. Away from the timpani, he takes part in the annual Basle carnival in Switzerland, playing the uniquely florid marching drumming of that tradition.

Bill has been teaching at the Academy since 2010.