Tamir is a London-based bassist, composer, and educator working across musical theatre, jazz, and contemporary music. As a performer, he has played extensively across the West End, national tours and the UK's jazz scene. As a composer, he explores storytelling through music, often drawing on fairytales to re-imagine familiar characters and ideas. Alongside performing and writing, Tamir is passionate about sharing music as a creative and expressive tool for his students.
Performer​
Tamir has worked extensively in musical theatre and jazz scenes, with credits including the bass chair at the Lyric Hammersmith pantomimes ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ (2025-26); ‘Aladdin’ (24-25); deputising on West End shows including ‘Hamilton’; ‘Matilda’ tour; ‘The Little Big Things’; ‘Come From Away’ tour; ‘Song of Songs’ and others. He’s additionally performed at jazz venues including the 606 club and the Vortex.
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Composer-arranger
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Tamir premiered his latest big band composition entitled ‘The Wicked Witch’ with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in Berlin as part of the Young Euro Classic Festival in August 2024. This piece explores through musical interplay the concept of the ‘witch’ and how witches are often portrayed as inherently ‘evil’ beings, especially in medieval literature, when in reality most people aren’t completely wicked or evil. Tamir continues to write and record compositions and arrangements based on fairytales and storytelling which are available to listen to on the ‘Music’ section of his website.
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Tutor
Tamir has a passion for introducing improvisatory music to others as a way to express themselves. Tamir runs his own teaching practice in his home in North London. He previously worked as a bass guitar tutor at the Jewish Community Secondary School (JCoSS), where he studied as a teenager; and with ARTeach, providing piano lessons to primary school students across North London. Alongside other National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) musicians, Tamir has delivered workshops to schools across England on two separate tours introducing jazz to young people. Tamir additionally holds the Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM), a teaching qualification focused on delivering a superb musical education.
Education
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Tamir graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a Master’s degree in Jazz Bass and Cambridge university with an undergraduate degree in Music. During his education Tamir studied with a variety of professional bass players and composers specialising in a range of genres, including Pete Churchill, Nikki Iles, Orlando Le Fleming, Jasper Hoïby, Jeremy Brown, Paul Westwood, Elena Hull, Laurence Ungless, and Zoltan Deckany.
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