Albums

James Wood - John Cage - Brian Ferneyhough
Ensemble VERTIGO der Hochschule der Künste Bern - Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain

NEOS 11825
January 2019

Cristóbal Halffter, Brian Ferneyhough, André Richard, Detlef Heusinger
EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO 40 Years Anthology Vol. 1

NEOS 11515
October 2015

Peter Ablinger, Ondřej Adámek, Friedrich Cerha, Brian Ferneyhough, Hanspeter Kyburz, Kryštof Mařatka, Wolfgang Rihm, François Sarhan, Salvatore Sciarrino, Simon Steen-Andersen, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Jennifer Walshe
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2014

NEOS 11522-24 / NEOS 51501
October 2015

Brian Ferneyhough
Complete Piano Works

NEOS 11501-02
June 2015

Ondřej Adámek, Aaron Cassidy, James Dillon, Brian Ferneyhough, Vinko Globokar, Georg Friedrich Haas, Philippe Manouri, Alberto Posadas, Simon Steen-Andersen, Marco Stroppa, Ivan Wyschnegradsky
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010

NEOS 11114-17
October 2011

Isabel Mundry, Enno Poppe, Brice Pauset, Ben Johnston, Arnulf Herrmann, Saed Haddad, Eduardo Moguillansky, Georges Aperghis, Bernhard Gander, Dror Feiler, Brian Ferneyhough
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2008

NEOS 10944
November 2009

Brian Ferneyhough was born in 1943 in Coventry, England, and received his musical training at the School of Music in Birmingham and the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1968 he was awarded a Mendelssohn Bartholdy Stipend to study with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam and in 1969 a stipend for studies with Klaus Huber in Basel. In 1984 he was awarded the title “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”, and in 1996 became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.

He became a member of the Academy of Arts Berlin in 1996. He taught Composition at the Conservatory in Freiburg, at the Civic School of Music in Milan and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He was Professor of Music at the University of California in San Diego between 1987–99, and since 1999 the William H. Bonsall Professor of Music at Stanford University. Since 1976 he has taught at the Darmstadt Summer Courses, taking on the position of Coordinator of Composition Courses in 1984. He was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2007.