Brian Current studied music at McGill University and UC Berkeley (Ph.D. 2002). His music, lauded and broadcast in more than 35 countries, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Prize for Orchestral Music (USA), the Italian Premio Fedora for Chamber Opera, and a Selected Work (under 30) at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. Brian Current’s pieces have been programmed by all major symphony orchestras in Canada and by dozens of professional orchestras, ensembles, and opera companies world-wide. He is in demand as a guest conductor and regularly leads orchestral programs of contemporary music.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Brian Current
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Toronto, CANADA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005
More:
www.briancurrent.com
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Brian Current worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…