Tim Davies (born 1972) is an Australian orchestrator and composer for film, television, video games, and the concert stage.
Davies studied percussion and composition at the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane, and composition at the Elder Conservatorium and the University of Melbourne.
After moving to the United States in 1998, he then began his career working as a music arranger and orchestrator for numerous features, including Plan B, The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, and Missing Brendan. From there, he would go on to work as the Orchestrator on numerous larger budget films, including When a Stranger Calls, Death Race, Repo Men, and Kick Ass 2.
In 2002, Davies also started working in the realms of television, as the music arranger for the TV Movie Fitzgerald. Since then, he has worked as the Conductor and Orchestrator on series such as Invasion, Pushing Daisies, Revenge, and Empire. In 2016, it was announced that he would be working as the composer on Trollhunters, the new animated series from Guillermo Del Toro’s animated, whom Davies had previously collaborated with as the composer for Crimson Peak.
Davies has also worked as the conductor on numerous video game titles, his debut work being for the Sony’s 2005 SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs. Since then, he’s worked on titles such as Prototype, Resistance 3 and Batman: Arkham City. He was also, recently, the symphonic sound designer on The Last of Us and Batman:Arkham Knight.