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Timothy Brady |
 Biography |
Known for his radiant orchestrations, his dramatic structures and his innovative guitar work, 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, music theatre, contemporary dance scores, jazz and free improvisation. He has been commissioned and performed by numerous ensembles and orchestras in North America and Europe including the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, New Music Concerts, INA-GRM (Radio-France), the English Guitar Quartet, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Esprit Orchestra (CBC), the Philadelphia-based Relâche ensemble, the Australian group Topology (Brisbane), and the British string ensemble The Smith Quartet. Since 1988 he has released 11 CDs as both a composer and a performer on Justin Time Records and, mostly recently, on the Ambiances magnétiques label.
Brady regularly tours North America, Europe, Asia and Australia as an electric guitar soloist, performing his own music as well as new works which he commissions from other composers in his effort to create a new voice for the electric guitar. He has performed at many leading venues including The South Bank Centre and the ICA (London), the Bang on a Can Festival (NY), and De Ijsbreker (Amsterdam), Radio-France (Paris), the Barcelona Contemporary Music Festival and BKA (Berlin). He has recorded extensively for Radio-Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Netherlands Public Radio, Radio-France, Spanish National Radio and National Public Radio in the USA.
His new music ensemble Bradyworks has toured Canada four times (1991, 1994, 2000, 2004), performed in the United States, and records regularly for both the CBC and Radio-Canada. The ensemble released its first CD in 1991, entitled Inventions, and released its second recording, Revolutionary Songs, in 1996 to coincide with its performance at the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville. In the autumn of 2003 the group presented its first European tour, including a radio performance for the BBC Radio 3 programme "Hear and No", along with concerts in Aberdeen, Dublin and Cork.
In the fall of 1997 Brady was the Artistic Director of The Body Electric / Guitarévolution festival, a massive 23- concert celebration of new music for the electric guitar held simultaneously in 7 cities across North America. In November 1997 Brady was a featured performer / composer at the prestigious Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK, presenting a solo concert and a workshop for young composers.
In October 2000 he released his 8th recording, a double CD entitled 10 Collaborations, featuring music and performances by Brady with a range of artists from Canada, France, Japan, Norway and the United Kingdom. Recent performances (2001) include the Auros Group for New Music (Boston), Festival Présence (Radio-France, Paris), the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, with the Motion Ensemble in Fredericton, NB., and solo concerts in Bolzano (Italy), Minneapolis, Appelton and Hartford (USA).
The fall of 2002 saw the release of his 9th CD - Twenty Quarer Inch Jacks, and the return of the Guitarévolution festival to Montréal. Brady also performed a featured concert at New York's Merkin Concert Hall, produced by the "Interpretations Series", where he gave the US première of his work Playing Guitar, for electric guitar, sampler and 15 instruments, accompanied by Montreal's reknowned Nouvel Ensemble Modern. His orchestral work Three or Four Days After the Death of Kurt Cobain, was performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in November 2002 and he released his 10th CD, Unison Rituals, in April, 2003, featuring 5 chamber works for saxophone and ensemble by Brady, with performances by Bradyworks, Quasar and KAPPA. September 2004 saw the release of his most recent recording project - Playing Guitar: Symphony #1, with the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne under the direction of Lorraine Vaillancourt.
March 2005
