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Tim Brady

Tim Brady is one of a new breed of musicians who find their inspiration in the diversity of contemporary musical media. His musical vision encompasses the range from chamber, orchestral and electroacoustic music, through compositions for dance and music theatre, to free improvisation and contemporary jazz.

He has released eight critically-acclaimed CDs as a composer/guitarist on Montreal's Justin Time Records, and he has worked with such well-known jazz artists as Gil Evans, John Surman, Kenny Wheeler and John Abercrombie. His 1992 solo CD Imaginary Guitars was named one of the year's best recordings by the US-based Guitar Player Magazine. His most recent CD - Strange Attractors - features music for solo electric guitar, live electronics and tape.

He has been commissioned by ensembles and soloists in Canada, the United States and Europe. His innovative use of the electric guitar has led to four commissions from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as guest performances with the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (Toronto), Espace Musique (Ottawa), the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and concerts with the American electronic composer Nicholas Collins.

In 1989 he formed Bradyworks in order to play his own music and to promote his vision of the electric guitar. The ensemble has given concerts for both the CBC and Radio-Canada and was featured at the 1990 Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville. In November 1991 the ensemble undertook a highly-successful 12-city North American tour, including a New York debut, as well as releasing its first CD, entitled Inventions. In March of 1994 Bradyworks undertook a 6-concert Canadian tour, presenting the premiere of Brady's major new work , Revolutionary Songs, as well as solo performances from the Scenarios CD.

During the 1992 - 93 season Tim Brady performed solo concerts throughout Europe and North America, as well as being a featured artist at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival, the Bang on a Can Festival in New York, the Bourges Electronic Music Festival and the Festival international de jazz de Montréal. In the fall of 1993 Brady performed as a soloist with the Esprit Orchestra in Toronto in a performance of his electric guitar concerto, LOUD, as well as performing solo concerts in New York, Princeton, Paris and Barcelona.

The 1994 - 95 concert season saw Brady perform concerts in Philadelphia (with the Relâche ensemble), New York (solo), as guest composer/performer for two concerts with the Cross Arts Ensemble in Mannheim, Germany and three concerts in Norway with the NMK composers' collective. He also performed a 5-city concert tour of the United Kingdom, including his debut at London's South Bank Centre and a solo recording for BBC Radio 3. November 1995 saw the premiere of two new chamber works, Double Helix and Unison Rituals, and in March of 1995 he was an artist-in-residence at the GRM studios of Radio-France in Paris, where he created a new work for electric guitar and tape.

The 1995 - 96 season saw Brady performing in Montréal (Innovations en concert), New York (The Knitting Factory), Toronto (Music Gallery), Los Angeles (Alligator Club) and at the Festival d'Hiver et d'Aujourd'hui in Annecy, France, as well as doing radio broadcasts for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio-Canada and Radio-France. In April 1996 his ensemble released its second CD, entitled Revolutionary Songs, and was once again featured at the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville in May, 1996 in a performance recorded for the Radio-Canada show, Le Navire Night.

In 1997 He released his 7th CD, entitled Strange Attractors, and was the artistic director of The Body Electric / Guitarévolution festival, an international festival of new music for the electric guitar which featured 23 concerts in 7 cities across North America. Other recent performances included the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Queen's University (Belfast), Experimental Intermedium (New York), New Langton Arts (San Francisco) and Beyond Barque (Los Angeles), the Barcelona Contemporary Music Festival and the Mostly Modern series in Dublin. Recent major commissions include a new work for the Relâche ensemble in Philadelphia (premiered in October 1997), the Nouveau Quatuor de Saxophone du Québec, the Mirror Image vocal ensemble, clarinetist Jean-Guy Boisvert and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne in Montréal.

In 1999 Brady underteook a 9-week, round the workd tour, including performances in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, th Czech and Slovak Republicans, Slovenia and the USA. The tour included solo concerts featring music from his CD " Strange Attractors ", as well as several collaborative concerts with the Australian new music group Topology and the British ensemble Regular Music II.

In the fall of 2000 he released his 8th Justin Time CD, entitled 10 Collaborations, as well as undertaking a 9-city Canadian tour with his ensemble, Bradyworks. In February 2001 he premiered his work for guitar and tape Music Box Bell Curves ("Hello Paris!"), commissioned by Radio-France (INA-GRM) for the Festival Présence. He gave several performance sin Denmark in June of 2001, as well as workshoping his upcoming opera project, to be premiered in the fall of 2003.

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