Brian Current

About Brian Current

Brian Current writes music that is brimming with energy – sometimes with the propulsive rhythms of so-called minimalist music, sometimes with a more delicate sense of flux, but almost always with a sense of motion and playfulness about the treatment of time and texture. These features have won him numerous honours, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Prize for Orchestral Music, and Italy’s Premio Fedora for his new chamber opera Airline Icarus. His concert-length work for Orchestra, Chorus, and Soloists, The River of Light, is premiering with the Vancouver Bach Choir and Orchestra in May of 2019. Future projects include a vertical opera about Glenn Gould on the wall of Toronto's Telus Centre, a commission for Cambridge's Ora Singers and a commission for the Eckhardt-Gramatté competition.

Brian Current a fait ses études musicales à l'Université McGill et à la University of California (Berkeley), où il a obtenu un doctorat en 2002. Sa musique, louangée et interprétée dans le monde entier, est aussi diffusée dans plus de 35 pays et lui a valu de nombreuses récompenses, notamment une bourse de la Guggenheim Fellowship, le Prix Barlow pour la musique orchestrale (États-Unis), le Prix Premio Fedora for Chamber Opera (Italie), le Concours de commandes de composition Azrieli ainsi qu'une œuvre sélectionnée (catégorie moins de 30 ans) par la Tribune internationale des compositeurs, à Paris.

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"The voice of an original composer with something important to say could be clearly heard."

— LA Weekly, Allan Rich

"Brian Current writes cutting-edge music that combines traditional and avant-garde playing techniques, all manner of tonality, and terrific imagination."

— American Record Time, Barry Kilpatrick

“Music may never have sounded quite so intoxicating.”

— The Villager, Michael Clive (New York)

"La voix d'un compositeur original qui a quelque chose d'important à dire."

— LA Weekly, Allan Rich

"Brian Current écrit une musique de pointe qui combine des techniques de jeu traditionnelles et avant-gardistes, toutes sortes de tonalités et une formidable imagination."

— American Record Time, Barry Kilpatrick

“La musique n'a peut-être jamais semblé si enivrante.”

— The Villager, Michael Clive (New York)