Brian FERNEYHOUGH

Brian Ferneyhough was born in Conventry, England in 1943. He received formal music training at the Birmingham School of Music, and at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Lennox BERKELEY. He continued his studies in Amsterdam with Ton de LEEUW and in Basel with Klaus HUBER. At the 1968 Gaudeamus Foundation Composer's Competition in Holland, Ferneyhough was awarded a prize for Sonatas for String Quartet, and this sucess was repeated the following years with Epicicle and Missa Brevis.

Ferneyhough has given lectures and classes at the Darmstadt Ferienkurze für neue Musik since 1976, and has been Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego since 1987. He has also directed courses in composition at the Fondation Royaumont, near Paris, since 1990. During 1996, four northern summer festivals will feature his music: the Darmstadt Ferienkurze, the Akiyoshida Festival in Japan, the International Bartók Seminar and Festival in Hungary, and the Royaumont Voix Nouvelles. Ferneyhough was also the recipient of the 1996 Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the chamber-scale composition category, for On Stellar Magnitudes.

1996