Timothy Kramer (born 1959) is an American composer whose music has earned him a Fulbright Scholarship, an National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Guggenheim fellowship.

He entered Pacific Lutheran University in 1977 as an engineering major but switched to music composition by his second year of studies.

His first work, a thirty-minute string trio titled Of All the Centuries, received a student award from Broadcast Music, Inc. in 1981 which confirmed his decision to continue to study composition.

[10] His graduate work at the University of Michigan[11] led him to meet many other living composers outside of his primary instructors, such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Elliott Carter, and Alberto Ginastera, and this influenced his decision to study abroad (with Martin Redel).

[36] Kramer's works reflect his fascination with visual patterns, cycles, and musical gestures that unfold in a variety of changing speeds and textures.

His instrumental music has been described as "constantly inventive, clear, full of energy, and admirably precise,"[38] "superbly crafted and intriguingly complex,"[39] and an "...approachable style, firmly grounded in tonality.