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Composer list
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Aldridge, Robert Livingston
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Amram, David
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Babbitt, Milton
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Bingham, Judith
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Brown, Earle
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Cage, John
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Cardew, Cornelius
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Carpenter, Cameron
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Crumb, George
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Dillon, James
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Dove, Jonathan
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Feldman, Morton
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Ferneyhough, Brian
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Franke, Bernd
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Genzmer, Harald
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Harrison, Lou
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Hersch, Fred
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Hillborg, Anders
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Hovhaness, Alan
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Kagel, Mauricio
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Ligeti, György
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Mayuzumi, Toshiro
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McNeff, Stephen
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Panufnik, Roxanna
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Philips, Julian
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Rathbone, Jonathan
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Reynolds, Roger
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Saunders, Rebecca
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Sheriff, Noam
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Tüür, Erkki-Sven
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Wallen, Errollyn
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Wallfisch, Benjamin
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Wolff, Christian
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Wuorinen, Charles
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Brian Ferneyhough
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Brian Ferneyhough was born in Coventry, England on 16 January 1943. He received formal musical training at the Birmingham School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 1968 he was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship, which enabled him to continue his studies in Amsterdam with Ton de Leeuw, and the following year obtained a scholarship to study with Klaus Huber at the Basel Conservatoire.
Following Ferneyhough's move to mainland Europe, his music began to receive much wider recognition. At the 1968 Gaudeamus Composers' Competition in Holland he was awarded a prize for Sonatas for String Quartet and this success was repeated in 1969 and 1970 with Epicycle and Missa Brevis. The Italian section of the ISCM at its 1972 competition gave Ferneyhough an honourable mention (second place) for Firecycle Beta and two years later a special prize for Time and Motion Study III which was considered the best work submitted in all categories.
Ferneyhough has also been the recipient of a Heinrich Strobel Foundation bursary from South West German Radio (1973), a German Academic Exchange award for 1976-77, the Koussevitsky award for Transit which was judged to be the best contemporary work recorded in 1978, and a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for On Stellar Magnitudes in 1995. He was made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1984 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 1998. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Berlin Akademie der Künste.
From 1973 to 1986 Ferneyhough taught composition at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany. Between 1984 and 1987 he regularly gave master classes at the Civica Scuola di Musica, Milan. In 1986-87 he held the position of principal composition teacher at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. Prior to being appointed William H. Bonsall Professor at Stanford University in 1999, Ferneyhough was Professor of Music at UC San Diego.
At the biennial Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt Ferneyhough was Composition-Course Co-ordinator from 1984 to 1996. Other prestigious academic engagements include Guest Professorships at the Royal Conservatoire, Stockholm, California Institute of the Arts and the University of Chicago, and invitations to lecture at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and several North American universities and colleges. He has also directed an annual master class in composition at the Fondation Royaumont, near Paris, since 1990.
Ferneyhough's music has been performed throughout the world and has been featured at all the major festivals of contemporary music: Akiyoshidai, Brussels, Darmstadt, Donaueschingen, Glasgow, Holland, Huddersfield, ISCM, La Rochelle, London (Almeida), Milan, Middelburg, Paris (Festival d'Automne), Royan, Salzburg, Strasbourg, Venice, Warsaw and Zurich.
Ferneyhough is currently engaged on an opera project, Shadowtime, commissioned by the Munich Biennale, based on the life and work of the German cultural philosopher Walter Benjamin. Current commissions include a work for choir and electronics for IRCAM and and an orchestral piece for the Donaueschingen Festival 2003.
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