Brian Current | |
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| Born | May 4, 1972 London, Ontario, Canada |
| Genre | Contemporary classical music |
| Occupations | Composer, conductor |
| Website | http://www.briancurrent.com |
Brian Current (born May 4, 1972) is a Canadian composer and conductor.
Born in London, Ontario, Current grew up in Ottawa where he studied piano, guitar and euphonium, and was a chorister. Following studies at McGill University under composers John Rea and Bengt Hambraeus, he earned a doctorate in composition at the University of California, Berkeley where he also studied conducting with David Milnes and Michael Morgan.
In 2006, Current was appointed director of the New Music Ensemble of the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music. He became director of the Continuum Contemporary Music Ensemble in 2011, and was chosen artistic director of New Music Concerts in Toronto in 2021.
He is an advocate of contemporary classical music, including for young audiences.
Current composes mainly in larger instrumental forms and opera. A key compositional method, which Current has termed "slanted time," involves fluctuations in tempo and shifts in timbre and texture to make the music in a perpetual state of evolution.
His work has been widely recognized with commissions and awards including:
Current has had residencies in the US, Italy and Japan and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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