Composer
Biography:
Brian Ferneyhough, born in 1943 in Coventry, England, received his musical education at the School of Music in Birmingham and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1968 he received a Mendelssohn-Bartholdy scholarship to study with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam and in 1969 a scholarship to study with Klaus Huber in Basel. In 1984 he was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 1996 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.
Since 1996 he has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He taught composition at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. From 1987 to 99 he was Professor of Music at the University of California in San Diego, and since 1999 he has been the William H. Bonsall Professor of Music at Stanford University. From 1976 he taught at the Darmstadt Summer Courses, from 1984 he was the coordinator of the composition courses. In 2007 he received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.
Albums:
Ensemble VERTIGO from the Bern University of the Arts – Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain:
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO 40 Years Anthology Vol. 1:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2014:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2010:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2008:
