Timothy Muffitt is currently in his 20th and final season as Music Director of the Lansing Symphony Orchestra. From 1999 to 2019, he was also Music Director of the Baton Rouge Symphony and was honored with the title of Music Director Laureate. Since 1997, Muffitt has been Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Institution’s Music School and conductor of its Music School Festival Orchestra, one of the country's premier orchestral training ensembles.

Along with growth in artistic excellence, Muffitt's work has been marked by innovative and imaginative programming including the advocacy of new music from composers of diverse backgrounds. He has been involved in commissioning well over 100 works in his career.

As a guest conductor, Muffitt has appeared with many prominent orchestras in North America including the Atlanta, San Francisco, St. Louis, Houston, Phoenix, and Edmonton symphonies, the Grant Park Music Festival, and the Buffalo Philharmonic. Equally at home in the opera pit as the concert stage, Mr. Muffitt has also conducted over 50 staged opera productions. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists including Lang Lang, Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Emanuel Ax, Renée Fleming, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Van Cliburn, Itzhak Perlman, André Watts, Joshua Bell, and Pinchas Zuckerman, among others.

Formerly Associate Conductor with the Austin Symphony, Muffitt was also Artistic Director of the Louisiana Philharmonic's Casual Classics Series in New Orleans. It was for his work in that position, that he was awarded a Certificate of Meritorious Service from the American Federation of Musicians.