Timothy Shaw
Timothy Shaw was born and raised in idyllic Keene, New Hampshire. He studied theology and music (composition, theory, history, piano) in college and graduate school, and he has enjoyed a multi-faceted career as publisher, composer, professor, church musician, and author. As a publisher he formed Shaw Music to distribute both his own music and that of several affiliate composers. The company is committed to producing artistic, worshipful, accessible sacred music. As a composer he has received various honors, including the ALCM Raabe Prize for Excellence in Sacred Composition. He has composed extensively for the church and is published by Augsburg Fortress, Beckenhorst, Choristers Guild, Concordia, Fred Bock, Hope, MorningStar Music, Neil A. Kjos, and Shawnee Press. He also composes on commission, and he has written for David Kim (Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster), Anne Martindale-Williams (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra principal cellist), and Abington Presbyterian Church (Abington, Pennsylvania), among others. As a scholar and clinician he has presented academic papers, workshops, music reading sessions, master classes, and hymn festivals at numerous universities, music societies, conferences, and churches throughout the United States. As a pianist he has recorded several albums, which are available on iTunes and via streaming services. As an author he is a contributor to a number of blogs about music and worship, and he has published an eBook Advent devotional (Behold, He Comes: Advent Reflections). In addition to these professional endeavors, he has volunteered as an ESL instructor, a youth baseball coach, and a board member of a community boys and girls club. He and his wife Lauren are proud parents of two sons.
Honors and Awards
2022 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Hymns for Treble Instrument
2021 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: I Know That My Redeemer Lives
2021 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Nativity Scenes
2021 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Love Came Down at Christmas
2020 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Do Not I Love Thee, O My Lord?
2019 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Lord Jesus Christ, Life-Giving Bread
2019 ALCM Raabe Prize for Excellence in Sacred Composition: Jesus, Refuge of the Weary
2019 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: In a Lowly Manger
2019 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Partita on For All the Saints
2018 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: I Sought the Lord
2018 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Two Hymns of Comfort
2018 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
2017 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Hail to the Lord’s Anointed
2017 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Nocturne on “Lord, I Need You”
2017 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Etude on “10,000 Reasons”
2016 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Jesus, Refuge of the Weary
2016 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Hymn Settings for the Year: 55 Piano Gems
2016 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: O Land of Rest, for Thee I Sigh
2015 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: O Jesus, I Have Promised
2015 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: More Love to Thee
2015 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Deep Were His Wounds
2014 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: An Easter Alleluia!
2013 JW Pepper Editors’ Choice: Rejoice in the Lord
2009 Detroit AGO, Marilyn Mason New Organ Music Competition, 2nd: Partita on For All the Saints
Music reviewed in: Choral Director, CrossAccent, Pastoral Music, The American Organist, The Diapason, The Hymn, The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians, The Journal of the National Association of Church Musicians, WorshipArts