Tim McGowan

Born and bred in Scotland, Tim McGowan has been writing music since the age of six. He has composed and produced music scores for theater and film productions in Scotland for 5 years, and has played in various bands as a member, vocalist, keyboardist and arranger for 20 years.

He is also founding member, songwriter, lead vocalist and keyboardist of melodic rock band "Burning in December"

Tim McGowan was born and bred in Scotland. Brought into a world of music, as it had always been in his family. His Grand Mother was a concert pianist, his Father also an accomplished Jazz musician, his Brothers also professional musicians playing in bands in many different venues in Europe.

At the tender age of six Tim had written his first song, a couple more were to follow over the next few years, but, art & design was pulling at his young creative mind & so all through his school years he concentrated on just that.

For the first six years after leaving college he worked for various companies using his graphic design skills, but, during this time bought himself his first synthesizer & after several years of teaching himself to play he realized that a career in music was truly in his heart.

He enrolled in a music course and studied the Rudiments and Theory of music for 2 years. During this time he co-formed a seven piece rock band called "Jeopardy". The next six years he found himself touring all over Britain with his band & going into the studio to record their original brand of melodic rock. Their first two songs "Midnight Hunter" & "Wake Up" simultaneously entered the U.K demo charts at numbers ten and six, which at the time had never been done before. The band were now gathering attention from several record companies but the band decided to take the independent route releasing their own material and managing themselves.

During the last two years of working with the band Tim had started training in drama with a professional theatre company called "Borderline Theatre". this was the start of yet another change in his musical path. At the end of his training he was working as a freelance music & drama workshop leader which saw him running workshops, for local authority organizations, with large numbers of young adults teaching them music & drama skills & writing and producing theatre productions tackling the issues that were affecting the young people in the community.

During this time he also acted as Musical Director for "Borderline Theatre" & "The South Ayrshire Youth Theatre" & various others which involved writing & performing the musical scores for many professional stage productions directed by Donald Stewart & John Murtagh (Who played Lochlan in the award winning Mel Gibson Movie, Braveheart)

He was also commissioned to write many other scripts and scores for several local government Social Work Departments, working with groups of young adults with varying backgrounds, including "Another Supper" which was a film that was Written, Directed, Produced & Filmed in Scotland by Tim. He went on to form his own theatre company "Weans World" with Donald Stewart, a business partner who had been the Community Education Director at "Borderline Theatre" and also Coordinator and Director of "The South Ayrshire Youth Theatre".

The next six years were taken up by touring with "Flat Broke", a showband he formed in 1993 and also working as a session keyboard player/programmer/arranger for many other professional bands & Artists

Tim relocated to America, setting up home in Florida. He is currently writing new original music for his next instrumental audio CD in his home studio.

He is also lead vocalist and keyboardist of the melodic rock band "Burning in December" and with rock band "EMPIRE"

http://www.burningindecember.com

http://www.myspace.com/burnin12

Two Burning in December cds are currently available, a studio recording entitled "No Way Out" and a live recording, aptly entitled "LIVE"

There is also a music video "No Way Out" available for your viewing pleasure, created entirely in 3D animation by Tim McGowan, on the above offical website links, as well as Google, AOL, MSN, Yahoo etc. etc.

Check It Out!!

Play live in and around Florida. Love it!! Every moment is special.

Kitaro, Arkenstone, Jean Michel Jarre

Queensryche, Marillion, Queen, Dream Theater, Rush, Yes, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, and so many more!!

Roland keyboards: JV, Fantom S88 & S61, XP60 & D50, Hammond B3 Organ. Shure in ear monitor, Roland KC550 amp, EV 757B Vocal Microphone. Zoom 2320 advanced sound processor, Alesis 3230 stereo compressors, V-Amp2, AKG uhf wireless mic plug in and receiver, Behringer Ultrafex Pro, Behringer 32 band Graphic EQ, TC Helicon voiceworks, Fostex 16 track digital multi-track, Sennheisser RS85 headphones, AKG guitar bug and receiver, Gibson 62 SG, Mission studio monitors. etc. etc.

Drop by my official website http://www.mcmusicinternational.com and listen to over 100 music samples from 11 of my CDs.

Or the Burning in December website:

http://www.burningindecember.com