Timothy Amukele

Dr. Timothy Amukele is a composer and arranger of vocal music. He graduated from City College of the City University of New York, where he majored in Music Theory and Biochemistry. His commissions include “I will rise”, by the New York regional chapter of the National Association of Negro Musicians; a song cycle for voice and piano celebrating the life of Dr. Norman Kretchmer, by Dr. Sam Seifter; and ‘What Sweeter music’, a Christmas cantata, by the Queen Anne United Methodist church. He was the composer in residence for the Grady-Rayam foundation in 2011, an honor that is bestowed every year to one arranger of spirituals. Other honorees include Uzee Brown, Joseph Joubert and Ronald Carter. Like Alexander Borodin, Fritz Kreisler, and many other musicians before him, Dr. Amukele is a working physician.