Brian Ferneyhough interview

Brian Ferneyhough is widely recognized as one of today's
foremost living composers. Since the mid-1970s, when he first
gained widespread international recognition, his music has earned
him an enviable reputation as one of the most influential
creative personalities and significant musical thinkers on the
contemporary scene. Ferneyhough was born in Coventry, England, in
1943 and 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. The Gaudeamus Composers’ Competition in the
Netherlands awarded Ferneyhough prizes in three successive years
(1968-70) for his Sonatas for String Quartet, Epicycle and Missa
Brevis respectively. 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. Recent works have included Inconjunctions
(2014), Contraccolpi (2016), and a collection of encounters
influenced by Christopher Tye, Umbrations (2001-2017), premiered
by the Arditti Quartet and Ensemble Modern at Wittener Tage für
Neue Kammermusik. Associated with the most prestigious teaching
institutions and international summer schools for contemporary
music, from 1984 to 1996 Ferneyhough was Composition Course
Co-ordinator at the biennial Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue
Musik. In 1984 he was made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres and he has since been named a member of the Berlin
Akademie der Künste, the Bayrische Akademie der Schönen Künste
and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. Most recently, he was
awarded the 2007 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.

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