Tim Brady » Biography

Montréal, Québec, 1956

Tim Brady

Tim Brady is a composer and guitarist who has created music in a wide range of genres ranging from chamber and orchestral music to electroacoustic works, chamber opera, contemporary dance scores, jazz and free improvisation. He has been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles and orchestras in Canada, the USA, Australia and Europe. Two operas (Bethune and The Salome Dancer) and two symphonies (Playing Guitar: Symphony #1 and The Choreography of Time: Symphony #2) figure among his list of recent works.

Since 1988 he has released 14 CDs as both a composer and a performer, most recently on the Ambiances magnétiques label. He has performed at many leading venues including The South Bank Centre and the ICA (London), The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), the Bang on a Can Festival (NY), and De Ijsbreker (Amsterdam), and the Radio-France Festival Présence (Paris), and the Darwin International Guitar Festival (Australia).

In January 2004 he was awarded the Prix OPUS for “Composer of the Year” by the Conseil québécois de la musique, and in November 2006 he was awarded the Jan. V. Matejzek prize by SOCAN, Canada’s performing rights organization. From 2008 to 2010 he will be working as the “composer in residence” with the Orchestre symphonique de Laval.

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