Composer and electric guitarist Tim Brady has created music in a wide range of musical genres and has been commissioned by ensembles and orchestras in North America, Europe and Australia including the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, New Music Concerts, INA-GRM (Radio-France), the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, New Music Concerts (Toronto), the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Esprit Orchestra, the Philadelphia-based Relâche ensemble, the Topology Ensemble (Brisbane, Australia) and the British string ensemble The Smith Quartet.
Since 1988 he has released eight CDs as a composer and a performer on Montreal's Justin Time Records. He leads the electroacoustic chamber ensemble Bradyworks, and frequently performs solo concerts at venues such as The South Bank (London) , Die Ijsbreker (Amsterdam), the Bang On A Can Festival (New York), Praha Alternativa (Prague), Xebec Hall (Kobe, Japan), the Festival Présence (Radio-France, Paris) and the Huddersfield Festival (England). In 1997 Brady was the Artistic Director of The Body Electric festival, a 23 concert celebration of new music for the electric guitar held simultaneously in 7 cities across North America. In 1997 he also released the CD Strange Attractors,. a solo electroacoustic guitar recording which he performed in 21 cities in an extensive world tour in the fall of 1999 including perfromances in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. In October 2000 he released a double CD of guitar music entitled 10 Collaborations, featuring music by Brady, Yasuhrio Otani, Atle Pakusch Gundersen, Jeremy Peyton Jones, Tristan Murail, Wes Wraggett and Wende Bartley. The release of the CD coincided with Bradyworks' third Canadian tour, in collaboration with mezzo Anne-Marie Donovan. Recent concerts and commissions have seen him perform his music in Boston (Auros Group for New Music), Fredericton (Motion Ensemble), Greensbourough (North Carolina) and at the Festival Présence (INA-GRM - Radio-France) in Paris.
 


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